Re: [Module::Build] ./Build on Win98

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Feb 25, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:

> Ok, here's the problem. The quoting is wrong in the invokation of
> pl2bat. Both arguments to pl2bat got bungled into one misformed  
> arg. I need to figure out how to invoke pl2bat from the command  
> line with corrected quoting. The command we're using now, that  
> produces the bungled last line above is:
>
> pl2bat -n "-x -S """%0""" --build_bat %*" -o "-x -S """%0""" -- 
> build_bat %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9" < Build > Build.bat
>
> It looks like it is trying to expand %*" -o "-x -S """% as an  
> evironment var. Maybe an extra space after %*:
>
> pl2bat -n "-x -S """%0""" --build_bat %* " -o "-x -S """%0""" -- 
> build_bat %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 " < Build > Build.bat
>
> Otherwise, I'm not sure how to quote the percent symbol (%%*  
> doesn't work). I've posted a message over on alt.msdos.batch about  
> this.

Won't the multi-argument form of system() be helpful here?  It's  
generally much easier to get that to work out than trying to get  
quoting right.

  -Ken