bug#18947: unexpected EOF while looking for matching

[Theuns Heydenrych]

HI 

When building Geos 3.4.2 with MinGW on Win7, the build fails at the last step when trying to link the dll, with the following.

libtool: link: g++ -shared -nostdlib c:/Tools/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.9.1/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/lib/../lib/dllcrt2.o c:/Tools/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.9.1/crtbegin.o  .libs/inlines.o  -Wl,--whole-archive algorithm/.libs/libalgorithm.a geom/.libs/libgeom.a geomgraph/.libs/libgeomgraph.a index/.libs/libindex.a io/.libs/libio.a linearref/.libs/liblinearref.a noding/.libs/libnoding.a operation/.libs/liboperation.a planargraph/.libs/libplanargraph.a precision/.libs/libprecision.a simplify/.libs/libsimplify.a triangulate/.libs/libtriangulate.a util/.libs/libutil.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive  -L/c/mingw491/i686-491-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev0/mingw32/opt/lib -L/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/lib -L/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/lib' -Lc:/Tools/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.9.1 -Lc:/Tools/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc -Lc:/Tools/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.9.1/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/lib/../lib -Lc:/Tools/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.9.1/../../../../lib -Lc:/Tools/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.9.1/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/lib -Lc:/Tools/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.9.1/../../.. -lstdc++ -lmingw32 -lgcc_s -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt -lpthread -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -luser32 -lkernel32 -liconv -lmingw32 -lgcc_s -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt c:/Tools/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.9.1/crtend.o    -o .libs/libgeos-3-4-2.dll -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -Xlinker --out-implib -Xlinker .libs/libgeos.dll.a

../libtool: eval: line 7867: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''

../libtool: eval: line 7868: syntax error: unexpected end of file

make[3]: *** [libgeos.la] Error 1

make[3]: Leaving directory `/c/cpp/dev/LibsExternal_/Gis/geos/geos-3.4.2/src'

make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/cpp/dev/LibsExternal_/Gis/geos/geos-3.4.2/src'

make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/cpp/dev/LibsExternal_/Gis/geos/geos-3.4.2'

make: *** [all] Error 2

What i have figured out so far is to list the default search path for gcc in MinGW is to issue the command

gcc -### -o foo foo.c

This will produce the following:

$ gcc -### -o foo foo.c > /c/dev/gcc.txt

gcc.exe: error: foo.c: No such file or directory

Using built-in specs.

COLLECT_GCC=c:\Tools\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe

COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/Tools/MinGW/bin/../libexec/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/4.9.1/lto-wrapper.exe

Target: i686-w64-mingw32

Configured with: ../../../src/gcc-4.9.1/configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --build=i686-w64-mingw32 --target=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw32 --with-sysroot=/c/mingw491/i686-491-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev0/mingw32 

--with-gxx-include-dir=/mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/include/c++ --enable-shared --enable-static --disable-multilib --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,lto --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-threads=posix 

--enable-libgomp --enable-libatomic --enable-lto --enable-graphite --enable-checking=release --enable-fully-dynamic-string --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-dwarf2 

--disable-isl-version-check --disable-cloog-version-check --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-bootstrap --disable-rpath --disable-win32-registry --disable-nls --disable-werror 

--disable-symvers --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-arch=i686 --with-tune=generic --with-libiconv --with-system-zlib --with-gmp=/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static 

--with-mpfr=/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-mpc=/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --with-isl=/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static 

--with-cloog=/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static --enable-cloog-backend=isl --with-pkgversion='i686-posix-dwarf-rev0, 

Built by MinGW-W64 project' --with-bugurl=http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64 

CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -I/c/mingw491/i686-491-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev0/mingw32/opt/include -I/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/include -I/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/include' 

CXXFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -I/c/mingw491/i686-491-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev0/mingw32/opt/include -I/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/include -I/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/include' 

CPPFLAGS= LDFLAGS='-pipe -L/c/mingw491/i686-491-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev0/mingw32/opt/lib -L/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-zlib-static/lib -L/c/mingw491/prerequisites/i686-w64-mingw32-static/lib'

Thread model: posix

gcc version 4.9.1 (i686-posix-dwarf-rev0, Built by MinGW-W64 project)

So there right at the end is the "offending" path, some script that should extract the -L paths, is bringing the ' character in, at the end of the line.

I am not sure if it is the libtool's configure scripts, but somewhere in the configure scripts, the ' (single quote character) should not be part of the library path.