Re: libtool generates temporary wrappers with improperly escaped LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Brandon Philips]

On 08:17 Thu 18 Dec 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Brandon Philips wrote on Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 07:59:34AM CET:
> > On 07:37 Thu 18 Dec 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > We can think about supporting it when and where this is suitably safe to
> > > do so, but my gut reaction would be "don't do it when it hurts".
> > 
> > I completely agree that people shouldn't do this. I wouldn't have
> > noticed usually but openSUSE uses colons as separators for project
> > names.
> 
> Can they be talked into using only characters from the set of portable
> file names, as defined by Posix?  I mean, they wouldn't start using
> spaces in their names just for fun^Wpain, no?

I completely agree. Posted to the mailing list if you want to join in:
 http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-buildservice/2008-12/msg00166.html

Thanks,

        Brandon