Re: meson vs windows perl - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: meson vs windows perl
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Msg-id 0f106f21-764a-4d82-a704-b2727079feb7@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: meson vs windows perl  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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On 2024-07-20 Sa 9:41 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 2024-05-28 Tu 6:13 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2024-04-05 16:12:12 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> OK, this has been fixed and checked. The attached is what I propose.
>> The perl command is pretty hard to read. What about using python's shlex
>> module instead? Rough draft attached.  Still not very pretty, but 
>> seems easier
>> to read?
>>
>> It'd be even better if we could just get perl to print out the flags 
>> in an
>> easier to parse way, but I couldn't immediately see a way.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for looking.
>
> The attached should be easier to read. The perl package similar to 
> shlex is Text::ParseWords, which is already a requirement.


It turns out that shellwords eats backslashes, so we would need 
something like this version, which I have tested on Windows. I will 
probably commit this in the next few days unless there's an objection.


cheers


andrew


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