Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Charles, Bruno,

* Charles Wilson wrote on Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 05:16:03PM CET:
> Bruno Haible wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ping?
> Original patch:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2008-09/msg00039.html
> 
> Last post on thread (Ralf):
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2008-10/msg00002.html

I haven't finished the testsuite addition yet.  This fix requires
such an addition.

I think instead of Bruno's patch a much simpler fix is possible by
including a different header:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/27968/focus=28033>

but I haven't checked yet whether that has license implications,
nor whether it actually works, nor whether it works for all system
and compiler combinations libtool cares about.

If somebody could do all that, that would be great.

Cheers,
Ralf