pwlconfig custom file problem

[Adi Linden]

Hi Dean,

I finally had time to do some more work on pwlconfig. I figured bugfixes
are a priority. So the current release includes a fix for the problem you
reported. It was caused by the method used to parse the custom.list file
and insufficient quoting.

So here is the latest pwlconfig archive (799kB):
http://peeweelinux.org/pub/Projects/Embedded/peeweelinux-0.53.27-cfg.tar.gz

Since these changes only affect the pwlconfig scripts I didn't build the
other archives that usually go with releases.

Please give this a good workout and report any problems! I will be pretty
busy these next few days and won't have much of a chance to actually use
PeeWeeLinux myself.

TTYL,
Adi


On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Dean Brown wrote:

> Adi,
> 
> I've come across a bit of a problem with the handling of custom files in
> pwl. If any directories have spaces in their names, the initial check
> when pwlconfig loads erroneously indicates that the source and custom
> directories aren't in sync. What appears to be happening is that any
> files in a custom directory that has an embedded space are assumed to
> belong in the root of the custom source directory.
> 
> IF you need an example, I can send you one. As a simple test however,
> create a project that uses a custom directory structure as follows:
> 
> "<custom_src>/test dir/foo"
> "<custom_src>/test dir/bar"
> "<custom_src>/test dir/foobar"
> 
> 
> If you add this to a project at root, exit pwlconfig, then re-enter
> pwlconfig you will get a list of file in your custom directory that do
> not exist in you custom source directory. The list will look something
> like this:
> 
> "<custom_src>/dir/foo"
> "<custom_src>/dir/bar"
> "<custom_src>/dir/foobar"
> 
> It seems that when you are creating your .list files, you aren't quoting
> paths with spaces embedded in them.
> 
> This is a problem for me since the application I am trying to run on my
> system has embedded spaces in the paths that I don't have control over.
> 
> -- 
> Dean Brown
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