Re: [Chicken-users] pathname tests

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> > felix winkelmann wrote:
> > > On 7/18/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Are there any tests or invocations of stuff that are particularly 
> > > > likely
> > > > to require correct pathnames for
> > > >   INSTALL_HOME
> > > >   INSTALL_BIN_HOME
> > > >   INSTALL_INCLUDE_HOME
> > > >   INSTALL_LIB_HOME
> > >
> > > These should be defined as strings, with quotes and backslashes 
> > > escaped through
> > > backslashes - I think that is enough.
> >
> >
> > Ok, I'll make 'em that way, but are there any TESTS or INVOCATIONS 
> > for this?  Stuff I can run and say, "Ah, ok, everything is definitely 
> > working."
>
> Another issue is if quotes are escaped, whether whitespace should be 
> escaped.  Because I'm thinking the quotes will no longer protect the 
> whitespace?  I've currently got paths like:
>
> #ifndef C_INSTALL_INCLUDE_HOME
> # define C_INSTALL_INCLUDE_HOME \"E:\\Program Files\\Chicken\\include\"
> #endif

Felix, for your perusal and input, I have pushed this particular style 
of pathname definition to Darcs.  The CMake build is now broken.  It 
dies in eval.c and library.c with the following errors.  Please inform 
whether whitespace should be escaped or not.


Brandon J. Van address@hidden ~/msys/chicken
$ make -k
Building C object boot/CMakeFiles/libchicken-boot.dir/eval.obj
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/eval.c: In function `f_10516':
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/eval.c:5886: error: stray '\' in program
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/eval.c:5886: error: missing terminating " 
character
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/eval.c:5886: error: syntax error before ')' token
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/eval.c:5886: error: too many arguments to 
function `C_mpointer'
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/eval.c:5886: error: syntax error before ';' token
make[2]: *** [boot/CMakeFiles/libchicken-boot.dir/eval.obj] Error 1
Building C object boot/CMakeFiles/libchicken-boot.dir/library.obj
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/library.c: In function `f_11936':
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/library.c:16512: error: stray '\' in program
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/library.c:16512: error: missing terminating " 
character
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/library.c:16512: error: syntax error before 
')' token
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/library.c:16512: error: too many arguments to 
function `C_mpointer'
E:/devel/msys/chicken/boot/library.c:16512: error: syntax error before 
';' token
make[2]: *** [boot/CMakeFiles/libchicken-boot.dir/library.obj] Error 1
make[2]: Target `boot/CMakeFiles/libchicken-boot.dir/build' not remade 
because of errors.
make[1]: *** [boot/CMakeFiles/libchicken-boot.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: Target `all' not remade because of errors.
make: *** [all] Error 2
make: Target `default_target' not remade because of errors.