Re: libtool and quote stripping

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Friday 06 April 2001  5:33 pm, s_a_white wrote:
> Hi,

Hello.

> I found another problem the other day.  I created a line with a define on
> it and found libtool (1.3c) removed my quotes which were needed:
>
> c++ -DMY_STRING="FOO" ...

Don't forget that the host shell expands one set of quotes, so the 
application (c++ in this case) will only see -DMY_STRING=FOO.

> now on the libtool (second) pass I get:
>
> libtool ... c++ -DMY_STRING=FOO ...

You should escape the quotes to make sure that your shell doesn't strip them 
before libtool can see the resulting line:

  libtool ... c++ -DMY_STRING=\"FOO\" ...

Take a look at libtool/tests/quote.test to see what I mean.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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