Re: RE: Bug with backticks behaviour in mSYS?

Quoting Mark Cave-Ayland 
<m.cave-ayland-IbN7e4zYhAu9FHfhHBbuYA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Another update on this: it appears to a be a bug in the MingW build of
> sh.exe, and seems to happen if the last character from the backticked
> command is a newline (\n) and there are additional characters after the echo
> command and the enclosing quotes. However, it does appear that the MingW
> version of bash doesn't have this bug so I guess this will have to be the
> short term work-around. Here are the outputs from MingW 4.1.0 and FC4 for
> the same test given in the previous email using both sh and bash:

Is your test program compiled with binary mode defaults for stdout?  
Try adding
/mingw/lib/binmode.o to the link command and retry your test.  This is likely
not to be a MinGW/MSYS error but a Windows feature.

> FC4
> ---
>
> [mca198@p15195424 test]$ sh -c "echo \"\`./test\` -lpq\"" | hexdump -C
> 00000000  74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20  61 20 74 65 73 74 20 73  |this is a test
> s|
> 00000010  74 72 69 6e 67 20 2d 6c  70 71 0a                 |tring -lpq.|
> 0000001b
> [mca198@p15195424 test]$ bash -c "echo \"\`./test\` -lpq\"" | hexdump -C
> 00000000  74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20  61 20 74 65 73 74 20 73  |this is a test
> s|
> 00000010  74 72 69 6e 67 20 2d 6c  70 71 0a                 |tring -lpq.|
> 0000001b
>
>
> MingW/MSYS
> ----------
>
> mca@IBM-SPARKS ~
> $ sh -c "echo \"\`./test\` -lpq\"" | hexdump -C
> 00000000: 74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 74 65 73 74 20 73  this is a test s
> 00000010: 74 72 69 6E 67 01 20 2D 6C 70 71 0A              tring. -lpq.
>
> mca@IBM-SPARKS ~
> $ bash -c "echo \"\`./test\` -lpq\"" | hexdump -C
> 00000000: 74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 74 65 73 74 20 73  this is a test s
> 00000010: 74 72 69 6E 67 20 2D 6C 70 71 0A                 tring -lpq.
>
>
> Where is the best place to report this bug so that it can get resolved for
> future releases?

The SF project provides a bug tracker for the MinGW project, that is where we
store the bug reports.

Earnie



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