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

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

On Feb 28, 2006, at 8:33 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:

> Ken Williams wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It doesn't seem so... In order to use redirection in the command  
> that's executed, the shell must be invoked.

Yuck.  Short of converting pl2bat into module form, is there some  
other sneaky solution?  Maybe set @ARGV and then do($pl2bat), with  
STDOUT tied?

If there's one thing I hate, it's shell quoting just to call another  
set of perl code.

  -Ken