Re: buildenv.pl/buildenv.bat

Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 12:15 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> When you redid the msvc build stuff you seem to have missed the
>>> documentatino.. Specifically, I notice that buildenv.pl isn't documented -
>>> docs still say buildenv.bat is the way to go.
>>>
>>> Also, do we now have both buildenv.bat and buildenv.pl? (I have them both
>>> in my environment, but that could be a result of being lazy)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> My recollection is that I changed the minimum amount necessary, because
>> I was expecting us to go into beta at anmy moment (silly me). That might
>> be why we still have both. There was an expectation that some cleanup
>> might be required during 8.4 development. I know I left other .bat files
>> as wrappers for the perl scripts, but that's obviously not appropriate
>> here. I'll see if I can adjust builddoc.bat so we can get rid of
>> buildenv.bat.
>>
>> As for documentation, you're probably right, I could easily have missed
>> it. I'll look into it.
>>
>
> Great. Let me know if you need me to poke at anything.
>
>
>

OK, I'm thinking that the best way might be to do away with buildenv.bat
altogether and replace the remaining references to it in .bat files with
something like this fragment:

if not exist src\tools\msvc\buildenv.pl goto nobuildenv
perl -e "require 'src/tools/msvc/buildenv.pl'; while(($k,$v) = each
%ENV) { print qq[\(at)SET $k=$v\n]; }" > tmp.bat
call tmp.bat
del tmp.bat
:nobuildenv

and adjust the docs accordingly.

Thoughts?

cheers

andrew