pkg-config 0.22 does not deal correctly with embedded blanks in directory names (fwd)

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2010-02-21 14:59+0100 Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

> ]] "Alan W. Irwin"
>
> | I am a Linux developer, but I feel dealing with embedded blanks in directory
> | names is an important issue.  Thus, I am still hoping for a reply from
> | you about an embedded blanks issue I found in pkg-config.
> |
> | (1) To take a specific example, for
> |
> | Libs: -L/home/software/plplot svn/installcmake/lib
> |
> | is there a current way (quotes or escapes or something else?)
> | to force the correct output result from -libs (i.e.,
> |
> | -L/home/software/plplot svn/installcmake/lib
> |
> | rather than the incorrect result that is actually obtained,
> |
> | svn/installcmake/lib -L/home/software/plplot
>
> Not currently.  There's a patch in bugzilla which I need to take a look
> at.  I'm thinking that it should allow normal single and double quotes
> as well as allowing \ to be used to escape spaces that should not be
> broken.

That would be the perfect result from my perspective.  Please let me know
when there is some repository version of pkg-config that I can test this
way.

Alan
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