issue 10683

Kristján Valur Jónsson · Kristján Valur Jónsson · commit 8d28a92eda3b · 2010-12-13T03:32:10.000Z
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
@@ -91,6 +91,17 @@ int main(int argc, char*argv[])
     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), "\\");
     }
 
