issue 10683
When the solution is converted to Visual Studio 2010, the command line to invoke make_buildinfo changes from:
$(SolutionDir)make_buildinfo.exe" Debug "$(IntDir)\"
to
$(SolutionDir)make_buildinfo.exe" Debug "$(IntDir)"
If the final backslash is omitted, the backslash in IntDir will escape the quote, thus passing the quote in as part of the path name.
This solution is a hack-fix to that problem by skipping any trailing quote from the path name. It works as long as we don't need any additional arguments to make_buildinfo.exe. This will help all those sould that are going to run this project through the visual studio autoconverter and get the same error.
diff --git a/PCbuild/make_buildinfo.c b/PCbuild/make_buildinfo.c
index 94ca8c0..fd3a2e2 100644
--- a/PCbuild/make_buildinfo.c
+++ b/PCbuild/make_buildinfo.c
@@ -91,6 +91,17 @@
if (argc > 2) {
tmpdir = argv[2];
strcat_s(tmppath, _countof(tmppath), tmpdir);
+ /* Hack fix for bad command line: If the command is issued like this:
+ * $(SolutionDir)make_buildinfo.exe" Debug "$(IntDir)"
+ * we will get a trailing quote because IntDir ends with a backslash that then
+ * escapes the final ". To simplify the life for developers, catch that problem
+ * here by cutting it off.
+ * The proper command line, btw is:
+ * $(SolutionDir)make_buildinfo.exe" Debug "$(IntDir)\"
+ * Hooray for command line parsing on windows.
+ */
+ if (strlen(tmppath) > 0 && tmppath[strlen(tmppath)-1] == '"')
+ tmppath[strlen(tmppath)-1] = '\0';
strcat_s(tmppath, _countof(tmppath), "\\");
}