Re: Auto-load safe-path and auto-load scripts-directory on Windows

[asmwarrior <asmwarrior@gmail.com>]

On 2015-10-10 21:17, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 21:24:45 +0800
>> From: asmwarrior <asmwarrior@gmail.com>
>> CC: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org
>>
>> The result is: $debugdir:$datadir/auto-load
>> This is the default value, and I have
>>
>> /* Directories from which to load auto-loaded scripts. */
>> #define AUTO_LOAD_DIR "$debugdir:$datadir/auto-load"
>>
>> in config.h
>>
>> But if I change the line to: (note I use the semicolon)
>> with_auto_load_dir='$debugdir;$datadir/auto-load'
>>
>> Then, I get an error:
>> $ ./mytest.sh
>> $debugdir;$datadir/auto-load
>> ./mytest.sh: line 7: /auto-load: No such file or directory
>>
>> So, it looks like an issue in the eval command?
> 
> The semi-colon is a special character, you need to quote or escape it.
> 

Sounds like this could at least print the ";" by adding two level escapes
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#!/bin/bash

with_auto_load_dir='$debugdir\\\;$datadir/auto-load'
escape_dir=`echo $with_auto_load_dir | sed 's/[[$]]\(datadir\|debugdir\)\>/\\\\\\\\\\\\&/g'`
echo $escape_dir

ac_define_dir=`eval echo $escape_dir`
ac_define_dir=`eval echo $ac_define_dir`
echo $ac_define_dir
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My previous example code has a typo, the last line should be "echo $ac_define_dir", not "echo $ac_defefine_dir"