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

[Alan W. Irwin]

Hi Tollef:

If the patch you referred to below did not get into 0.23, please make
sure it gets into 0.24.

Alan
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:59:22 +0100
From: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at err.no>
To: Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca>
Cc: pkg-config at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: pkg-config 0.22 does not deal correctly with embedded blanks in
     directory names (fwd)

]] "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.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
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