Re: Broken exe wrapper script on OS/X

[Robert Boehne]

Bruce,

So what does CVS Libtool do?

Robert

Bruce Korb wrote:
> 
> GNU libtool) 1.4.2
> 
> Here "$col" refers to an ugly path to a shell script wrapper
> for the "columns" program.  I modified it slightly by adding
> "set -x" just before the command invocation.  As you can see,
> there seems to be a problem with embedded white space in command
> line arguments.  The argument gets broken in two and my program
> complains.  The platform is an OS/X 10.1 (sourceforge compile farm)
> 
> ======================
> 
> + ls -1 *.[ch] | $col -I4 --spread=1 --line-sep=' XXX'
> + columns -I4 --spread=1 --line-sep= XXX
> columns: Command line arguments not allowed
> columns - Columnize Input Text - Ver. 1.1
> USAGE:  columns [[ .... ]]
> 
> $ ls -1 *.[ch] | $col -I4 --spread=1 "--line-sep='  XXX'"
> + columns -I4 --spread=1 --line-sep=' XXX'
> columns: Command line arguments not allowed[[ .... ]]
> 
> $ ls -1 *.[ch] | $col -I4 --spread=1 "--line-sep='XXX'"
> + columns -I4 --spread=1 --line-sep='XXX'
>     autoopts.c    autoopts.h    boolean.c     enumeration.c numeric.c'XXX'
>     options.h     pgusage.c     restore.c     save.c        stack.c'XXX'
>     streqv.h      streqvcmp.c   usage.c       version.c
> 
> $ echo $0
> -bash
> ~/autogen-5.5.2pre8/=Power-Macintosh-Darwin-5.5/pkg/libopts-18.6.9
> $ uname -a
> Darwin usf-cf-ppc-macosx-1 5.5 Darwin Kernel Version 5.5: Thu May 30 14:51:26 
> PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-201.42.3.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
> Power Macintosh powerpc
> 
> ==== BACK ON MY DEVELOPMENT MACHINE: ====
> 
> $ libtool --version
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4.2 (1.922.2.54 2001/09/11 03:33:37)
> 
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