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From: Jurko Gospodnetić (jurko.gospodnetic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-26 17:49:36


   Hi Ilya.

>> In msvc.jam replace
>>
>> suffix = " >nul \"&&\" " ;
>>
>> with
>>
>> suffix = " \">nul\" && " ;
>
> Should this be changed on the trunk?
>
> What are the quotes around >nul for anyway?
>
> I'm not a shell expert but I've tried playing around with this from
> the cygwin bash shell but could not find a command in which those quotes
> were needed?

   After some more testing it seems that >nul needs to be quoted so cmd
would process it and not bash.

   I also believe that && needs to be changed to \"&\" so it would be
processed by cmd.exe and not bash.

   Could someone confirm this please?

   Best regards,
     Jurko Gospodnetić


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