Calls to EPICS tools do not work in a DOS-Box

[Ralph Lange]

When building base in a DOS-Box, the make crashes when the first of the EPICS base tools (dbExpand) is called from ../src/softIoc.

make[1]: Entering directory `C:/work/3-14-2-0/src/softIoc/O.win32-x86'
"Expanding dbd"
../../../bin/win32-x86/dbExpand.exe -I . -I .. -I ../../../dbd ../softIocInclude.dbd > dbExpand.tmp
'..' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Additional information:
Probably the DOS-Box does not cope with forward slashes in path names of tools.

OS: Windows2000 / MSVC 6.0 / DOS-Box

Platform: win32-x86

Version: R3.14.1 R3.14.2

Original Mantis Bug: mantis-33
    http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/mantis/view_bug_page.php?f_id=33

[Ralph Lange (ralph-lange)]

Bug doesn't show up under cygnus, as the cygnus DLL takes care of all pathname issues. (That DLL is also used by the cygnus version of make)
In the DOS-Box the bug only appears when make calls the cmd.com shell for command lines that contain shell metacharacters or shell functions (redirection, pipes etc.)
Applied a fix to CONFIG_BASE adding a call to the PATH_FILTER macro that replaces forward slashes with backward slashes for all calls of base tools. Janet approves.

[Andrew Johnson (anj)]

R3.14.3 released.