"make nroff documentation" fails due to special characters in WSL

[teclabat]

Version: Tktable 2.12.1 release

Build output:

make nroff documentation
/bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/bin/bash: -c: line 1: `if [ -n "TCL_LIBRARY=`echo /home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcl/library` LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tktable:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcl/unix:" PATH="/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tktable:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcl/unix:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/release/bin:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcllib/apps:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/release/bin:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcllib/apps:/home/thomas/.local/bin:/home/thomas/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/lib/wsl/lib:/mnt/c/Program Files/WindowsApps/TheDebianProject.DebianGNULinux_1.23.0.0_x64__76v4gfsz19hv4:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Intel/Shared Files/cpp/bin/Intel64:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32:/mnt/c/WINDOWS:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Windows Performance Toolkit/:/mnt/d/Programs/ffmpeg/bin:/mnt/d/Programs/msys2/mingw64/bin:/mnt/d/Programs/msys2/usr/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/dotnet/:/mnt/c/Program Files/PostgreSQL/pg10/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Network Monitor 3/:/mnt/d/Programs/Git/bin:/mnt/d/Programs/net-snmp/bin:/mnt/d/CM.tcltk/tcltk86/release/share/lib64:/mnt/c/Program Files/TortoiseGit/bin:/mnt/c/Users/thomas/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/mnt/c/Users/thomas/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin:/mnt/c/Users/thomas/.local/bin" TCLLIBPATH="/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tktable" /home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcl/unix/tclsh /home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/release/bin/dtplite" -a -x "TCL_LIBRARY=`echo /home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcl/library` LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tktable:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcl/unix:" PATH="/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tktable:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcl/unix:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/release/bin:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcllib/apps:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/release/bin:/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcllib/apps:/home/thomas/.local/bin:/home/thomas/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/lib/wsl/lib:/mnt/c/Program Files/WindowsApps/TheDebianProject.DebianGNULinux_1.23.0.0_x64__76v4gfsz19hv4:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Intel/Shared Files/cpp/bin/Intel64:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32:/mnt/c/WINDOWS:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/System32/OpenSSH/:/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Windows Performance Toolkit/:/mnt/d/Programs/ffmpeg/bin:/mnt/d/Programs/msys2/mingw64/bin:/mnt/d/Programs/msys2/usr/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/dotnet/:/mnt/c/Program Files/PostgreSQL/pg10/bin:/mnt/c/Program Files/Microsoft Network Monitor 3/:/mnt/d/Programs/Git/bin:/mnt/d/Programs/net-snmp/bin:/mnt/d/CM.tcltk/tcltk86/release/share/lib64:/mnt/c/Program Files/TortoiseGit/bin:/mnt/c/Users/thomas/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps:/mnt/c/Users/thomas/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin:/mnt/c/Users/thomas/.local/bin" TCLLIBPATH="/home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tktable" /home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/rcompile/tcl/unix/tclsh /home/thomas/cm.tcltk/tcltk86/release/bin/dtplite" ]; then \'
make: *** [Makefile:223: make-docs-n] Error 2

Possible cause:
The build is executed in WSL and the special characters in PATH cause it to fail.

Same issue as here: https://core.tcl-lang.org/tcltls/tktview/fb2fecf22123f3c6ccaefbc0e7b40c4f3b728ceb

BR

[bohagan1]

This issue should be corrected now. It's not exactly the same as the tcltls issue, since that was also missing the DTPLITE variable definition. The crux of the problem here is a combination of using TCLSH in the wrong place which triggered the quoting problem and we only look for dtplite, but should also check for dtplite.tcl. Apparently not all systems do it the same way. Try it and let me know if it works. Thanks.