Re: [CMake] EXECUTE_PROCESS too good at running programs

[Brandon J. Van Every]

William A. Hoffman wrote: At 04:21 PM 7/21/2006, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: My test is plenty reliable. I have ***makeinfo***, not makeinfo.exe. Please read *ALL* the details of my post. There are ~30 tools in E:\msys\1.0\bin that do not have .exe suffixes, run fine under a MSYS shell, and are not intended to be run under anything but a MSYS shell. EXECUTE_PROCESS is finding a way to run them. My wild-assed-guess as to explanation, is that it execs arbitrarily named files, and does not check whether the filename is valid for a Windows command prompt. These MSYS tools are probably valid apps in some Windows-native sense, but not to a Windows command prompt. My msys has a makeinfo.exe and not a makeinfo. I'm sure you and Brad do.  That doesn't mean an installation with plain old "makeinfo" is invalid.  For instance, I believe I may have built and installed makeinfo from source, under the MSYS shell.  It works fine under MSYS shell and the CMake MSYS generator, no problemo.  As I said in a previous e-mail, there are 30 tools in my E:\msys\1.0\bin that do not have .exe suffixes.  I believe I obtained them from standard MSYS tarballs; I certainly didn't compile them.  This is a general problem for MSYS and VC++ interactions.  It is not specific to my particular "makeinfo". Cygwin: $ ls /cygdrive/c/msys/1.0/bin/makeinfo.exe /cygdrive/c/msys/1.0/bin/makeinfo.exe Not relevant; let's not add any Cygwin shell issues here. msys: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin $ ls -l makeinfo.exe makeinfo -rwxr-xr-x 1 Hoffman Administ 180224 Mar 16 2004 makeinfo -rwxr-xr-x 1 Hoffman Administ 180224 Mar 16 2004 makeinfo.exe But from dos there is no makeinfo: C:\msys\1.0\bin>dir makeinfo.exe Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 78BB-7820 Directory of C:\msys\1.0\bin 03/16/2004 01:32 PM 180,224 makeinfo.exe 1 File(s) 180,224 bytes This dual nature is interesting, but as my installation demonstrates, a singular nature is also possible. msys: Brandon J. Van [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin $ ls -l makeinfo* -rwxr-xr-x    1 Brandon  Administ   180224 Apr 30  2004 makeinfo Windows command prompt: E:\msys\1.0\bin>dir makeinfo.*  Volume in drive E is MONDRIAN  Volume Serial Number is 9CA0-CADF  Directory of E:\msys\1.0\bin 04/30/2004  11:15p             180,224 makeinfo                1 File(s)        180,224 bytes                0 Dir(s)  11,499,442,176 bytes free Cheers, Brandon Van Every

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