[Buildbot-devel] Windows 8 shell command

[Hugh Sorby]

I guess I realised that ^ is the escape character but my problem is 
understanding why did it get put there?

I pass the same string to the shell command as all the other build 
slaves in particular the string passed to the Windows 7 build slave is 
practically the same but this string doesn't get escaped.  There is no 
CMakeLists.txt file involved at this point really I am trying to invoke 
it with this command.

 From the stdio log from the Windows 7 slave:

'c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SDKs\\Windows\\v7.1\\bin\\SetEnv.cmd' 
'/Release' '/x64' '&&'

 From the stdio log from the Windows 8 slave:

^"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1\bin\SetEnv.cmd^" /Release 
/x64 ^&^&

Why does the windows 8 slave add the escape characters to my command?  
If anybody could tell me I would really appreciate it.


On 01/29/15 11:48, Dan Kegel wrote:
> For what it's worth, ^ is the escape character for cmd, see
> http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-esc.html
>
> What's the CMakeLists.txt fragment that generates that command?
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Hugh Sorby <h.sorby at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am passing a string with spaces to a shell command for a windows 8
>> build slave and getting an error.  It seems the " is being prepended
>> with a ^, this doesn't happen when I pass the same string to a windows 7
>> build slave.  Here is a sample of the string as returned in the stdio
>> log for the step.
>>
>> ^"c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1\bin\SetEnv.cmd^" /Release
>> /x64 ^&^&
>>
>> Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how to work around it, I am
>> using Buildbot 0.8.7p1.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Hugh.
>>
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