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Re: libltdl 2.2.2 compile problem on AIX system with compiler scripts


From: Tom Epperly
Subject: Re: libltdl 2.2.2 compile problem on AIX system with compiler scripts
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 16:31:16 -0700
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Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Tom Epperly wrote:

Thanks for the reply. I can't just fix the wrapper because it's not under my control, and my software package needs to install when other people compile it using the system's default compiler.

That is unfortunate. Development libtool 2.2 used this syntax for two or three years and the libltdl configury depends on it.
We've done a lot of testing of the Fortran-related parts of the autotools package, but unfortunately, we haven't had the resources to look at development or prereleased versions.

Have you looked at why this wrapper fails? Perhaps you can add yet another wrapper which adds some extra "escaping" to the arguments (or re-write the arguments) so that they survive the problem wrapper? This would of course make the build a little bit slower.
My understanding is that for argument processing in bash where you potentially add or remove command line arguments, it's basically impossible to preserve the argument quoting. You need to use another language, and the system administrators use bash because it's the most common language for things like this despite the rare problems with quoting.

Tom

Bob
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