Re: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar

[tom honermann]

Note that Cygwin has a few oddities that might explain some of the issues that Mark is experiencing.  I've recently been fighting Cygwin in similar ways.

In particular, if Cygwin's bash.exe (or sh.exe) is used as the gmake shell, Cygwin detects that it is being launched by a non-Cygwin process and performs some perturbations of the command line including collapsing of (unquoted) backslashes.  The results are then processed by bash/sh as UNIX normally would.  Try adding "noglob" to the Cygwin environment variable to see if that changes behavior.  The "noglob" option is documented at http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html (though the documentation doesn't explain this option particularly well).  Also, try quoting paths in command lines passed through Cygwin binaries - doing so affects the extra globbing that Cygwin performs.

I've noticed that the latest Cygwin 1.7 DLL seems to have some problems with the "noglob" option.  There are some command lines I have been completely unable to get passed through to Cygwin when using the "noglob" option.  I've had to stick to "glob" (the default) and double escape backslashes for the time being.

Tom.

On 2/7/2010 1:28 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

From: "Mark Galeck (CW)" <address@hidden>
CC: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>, "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 12:44:09 -0800

    

The way it works with the Windows shell and Windows echo will not
      

change.

wait, we already established, that this has nothing to do with shell or echo - on Windows, GNU make is currently stripping one of 3 backslashes in a command like this:

Foobar:
	perl foobar.pl \\\foobar


and, I think we have established that this behavior is undocumented ( I think Paul is saying it is a bug, and you are saying you are not sure).  
    

It does that only when it does not invoke builtin commands.


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