On 16 August 2015 at 15:29, Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> 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.
