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Re: ISSUE+PATCH: svn_load_dirs.pl fails on filenames containing $-sign ( probably Cygwin specific )

From: Max Bowsher <maxb_at_ukf.net>
Date: 2005-09-05 13:21:18 CEST

Lieven Govaerts wrote:
> Citeren Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net>:
>
>> Lieven Govaerts wrote:
>>> Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net>:
>>>> You say you are using Cygwin, yet your patch exclusively touches code
>>>> which
>>>> is only used when running with native-Windows Perl.
>>>> I suspect your problems are due to mixing Cygwin and non-Cygwin
>>>> components.
>>>>
>>>> I think that the patch would cause problems for fully native-Windows
>>>> environments.
>>>
>>> Max,
>>>
>>> I don't have Perl installed in my windows environment, only as a cygwin
>>> package. As a double check, this is the info concerning perl and svn in
>>> my cygwin:
>>>
>>> $ which perl
>>> /usr/bin/perl
>>>
>>> $ perl --version
>>> This is perl, v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int
>>>
>>> $ which svn
>>> /usr/bin/svn
>>>
>>> $ svn --version
>>> svn, version 1.2.0 (r14790)
>>> compiled Jun 10 2005, 22:10:10
>>>
>>> It's clear that the code in my patch is executed, as it fixes my
>>> problem.
>>> Any idea which other component can be involved then?
>>
>> The code you patched is definitely inside a conditional to run only for
>> native windows perl.
>> What does this print?:
>> perl -MEnglish -e "print $OSNAME;"
>>
>> I'm baffled.
>>
>> Max.
> $ perl -MEnglish -e "print $OSNAME;"
>
> $
>
> Seems that $OSNAME is an empty string.

Oops! I used the wrong quotes, so the shell ate $OSNAME itself.

$ perl -MEnglish -e 'print $OSNAME;'

Max.

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