Re: libtool breaks if arg is explicit null string

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Thursday 14 June 2001  4:13 pm, Robert Boehne wrote:
> John Reiser wrote:
> >
> > In general, any "$file" containing shell metacharacters will cause
> > trouble because
> >         sed -e 4q  $file  |  ...
> > forgot to quote   "$file" .
>
> OK, I see.  Do any of the maintainers have a problem with such
> a change?  It looks harmless, but the quoting in libtool is
> VERY sensitive to changes, and I'd guess that the "" were left

No problem's from me.  My rule of thumb (on a development branch) is that if 
someone submits a sensible looking report with a fix, and the full test suite 
still passes for me with the fix applied, I tend to apply it (pending 
paperwork for the FSF if necessary).

> We do have plans to eliminate all of these problems, but it
> will be some time before a binary libtool is available.

I plan to make another pass over bare $var at some point, and add double 
quotes and/or leading 'x's as necessary at some point before 1.5 is unleashed.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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