Re: [MiKTeX] MiKTeX 2.8 compilation issue on Fedora Core 8

[George N. W. I. <gn...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Christian Schenk <cs...@mi...> wrote:

> George N. White III wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Christian Schenk <cs...@mi...> wrote:
>>> G. Praveen Kumar wrote:
>>>> Christian,
>>>>
>>>> This is the cmake command i give.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DMIKTEX_INSTALLROOT=/home/praveen/programs/texmf/
>>> Please try this:
>>>
>>> ... -DMIKTEX_INSTALLROOT="/home/praveen/programs/texmf/"
>>
>> Adding double quotes should not have any effect -- the double quotes
>> will be stripped
>> off by the shell program before cmake gets the argument list.
>>
>> I see the same problem on MacOSX.
>
> You are right. This should be better:
>
> ... -DMIKTEX_INSTALLROOT=\"/home/praveen/programs/texmf/\"

I thought of that. but it gave the same error (running cmake in a freshly
unpackaged version). then:

... -DMIKTEX_INSTALLROOT=\\\"/home/praveen/programs/texmf/\\\"

but got::

[ 34%] Building CXX object
Libraries/MiKTeX/Core/CMakeFiles/MiKTeX208-beta-1-core.dir/CommandLine.cpp.o
<command-line>: warning: missing terminating " character
<command-line>: warning: missing terminating " character

[...]
[ 50%] Building CXX object
Libraries/MiKTeX/Core/CMakeFiles/MiKTeX208-beta-1-core.dir/unx/unx.cpp.o
<command-line>: warning: missing terminating " character
<command-line>: warning: missing terminating " character
/opt/miktex/src/miktex-2.8-beta-1/Libraries/MiKTeX/Core/unx/unx.cpp:109:
error: stray '\' in program
/opt/miktex/src/miktex-2.8-beta-1/Libraries/MiKTeX/Core/unx/unx.cpp:109:
error: missing terminating " character
/opt/miktex/src/miktex-2.8-beta-1/Libraries/MiKTeX/Core/unx/unx.cpp:112:
error: stray '\' in program
/opt/miktex/src/miktex-2.8-beta-1/Libraries/MiKTeX/Core/unx/unx.cpp:112:
error: missing terminating " character

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George N. White III <aa...@ch...>
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