Re: [bug #45759] Can't find Texinfo::ModulePath

[Gavin Smith]

On 16 August 2015 at 15:47, Gavin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 16 August 2015 at 15:29, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Follow-up Comment #2, bug #45759 (project texinfo):
>>
>> The problems you are having happen because ActiveState Perl produces file
>> names with backslashes, which MSYS Bash then treats as escape characters.  
>> For
>> example, see how this:
>>
>> c:\NOS_PR~1\msys\MINGW-~1\I686-4~1.0-P\mingw32\bin\gcc.exe
>>
>> became this:
>>
>> c:NOS_PR~1msysMINGW-~1I686-4~1.0-Pmingw32bingcc.exe
>>
>
> I think we need to double backslashes in the output of "perl -V:cc". I
> thought that that was Perl code that was output but it may actually be
> shell code.

Like this, for example:

Index: tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/configure.ac
===================================================================
--- tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/configure.ac (revision 6499)
+++ tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/configure.ac (working copy)
@@ -7,17 +7,13 @@
           conf_value=`${PERL} -V:$1`
           echo got "$conf_value"
           # This turns a string like "cc='cc';" into a string like "cc".
-          # We also turn \" into ", \' into ' and \\ into \.  There may
-          # be other \ sequences we want to process as well.  This is
-          # the escape sequence for single-quoted strings in Perl.
+          # We also double backslashes.
           conf_value=`echo $conf_value \
               | sed -e 's/^@<:@^=@:>@*= *//'   \
                     -e 's/^'\\''//'            \
                     -e 's/ *; *$//'            \
                     -e 's/'\\''$//'            \
-                    -e 's/\\\\"/"/g'           \
-                    -e 's/\\\\'\\''/\\'\\''/g' \
-                    -e 's/\\\\\\\\/\\\\/g'     `
+                    -e 's/\\\\/\\\\\\\\/g'     `
           echo got "$conf_value"
 }