[m-rev.] for review: mercury.bat

[Fergus Henderson]

On 19-Apr-2001, Peter Ross <peter.ross at miscrit.be> wrote:
> 
> Not requiring cygwin for the build architecture is a worthwhile goal,
> but isn't this what Simon is working on currently?

I think the stuff that Simon was going to work on was putting some Mmake
functionality into the compiler.

> I would be hesitant to commit this now, because even this solution
> requires cygwin to be installed so that calls to invoke_shell_command
> succeed inside the compiler.

Ah, that's another dependency on Cygwin that I hadn't noticed.

> > +%MC% ... %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
> 
> Does this limit us to only passing 9 arguments to the compiler?

Yes.  DOS batch files really suck, don't they?

I'll fix that.  For Windows you can use "%*".

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