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Re: Crash on Windows when SHELL is assigned
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Crash on Windows when SHELL is assigned |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:34:11 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:18:45 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> > 2 It looks like if PATH contains quotes, they're treated in a strange
> > manner. Instead of just removing
> > (unescaping) them, make looks for <run directory>\"some directory in
> > quotes" (observed with Process
> > Monitor). The quotes must be removed before calling _access().
>
> An example would help, but generally speaking PATH with quotes is
> invalid; see for example this post:
>
>
> https://serverfault.com/questions/349179/path-variable-and-quotation-marks-windows
Btw, in a simple Makefile I tried, I couldn't reproduce this, either:
Make had no problems finding programs on PATH when the directory where
those programs live was quoted in the value of PATH. So I guess here,
too, an example of a failure is necessary to reproduce the problem.