Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Bruno,

thanks for the bug report.

* Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:55:27PM CEST:
> 
> This is a severe regression in libtool 2.x w.r.t. 1.5.26. On mingw, several
> of the gettext tests fail because the executable wrapper created by the
> libtool script does two bad things:
> 1) It converts argv[0] from a filename with backslashes to a filename with
>    slashes.
> 2) It does word splitting on arguments that contain spaces.

Is the second point exposed by
  make check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS='-v -d -x -k "execute mode"'
?

If not, then tests/execute-mode.at should be amended to expose this.
If yes, does your patch make the test pass?

Thanks,
Ralf