Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Linking wireshark.exe --- Error

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 31, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Anders Broman wrote:

> It may be a problem with your path, cygwin link chosen before MS  
> studio.

I doubt it's getting the wrong version of "link"; it appears to be  
running Microsoft's "link":

>         link @C:\DOCUME~1\leo&mik\IMPOST~1\Temp\nm116.tmp
> Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 9.00.30729.01
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: impossibile aprire il file 'C: 
> \DOCUME~1\leo'
> Impossibile trovare il percorso specificato.

However, if Leonardo's "home directory" (or whatever it's called in  
Windowsland) is really C:\Documents and Settings\leo&mik or something  
with an "&" in it, some program might be treating the "&" as a token  
separator and looking for C:\DOCUME~1\leo rather than C: 
\DOCUME~1\leo&mik.

This appears to be a bit of a botch in Microsoft's nmake, as I think  
"@<<" is sort of like a "here document" in UN*X shells, i.e.

	@<<
blah blah blah
<<

means it copies the text between the "@<<" and the "<<" into a file,  
and passes the name of the file as an argument; perhaps it needs to  
quote the file name?