Re: meson vs windows perl

On 2024-07-30 Tu 3:47 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 2024-07-20 Sa 9:41 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>
>> On 2024-05-28 Tu 6:13 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 2024-04-05 16:12:12 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>> OK, this has been fixed and checked. The attached is what I propose.
>>> The perl command is pretty hard to read. What about using python's
>>> shlex
>>> module instead? Rough draft attached.  Still not very pretty, but
>>> seems easier
>>> to read?
>>>
>>> It'd be even better if we could just get perl to print out the flags
>>> in an
>>> easier to parse way, but I couldn't immediately see a way.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for looking.
>>
>> The attached should be easier to read. The perl package similar to
>> shlex is Text::ParseWords, which is already a requirement.
>
>
> It turns out that shellwords eats backslashes, so we would need
> something like this version, which I have tested on Windows. I will
> probably commit this in the next few days unless there's an objection.
>

pushed

cheers

andrew

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