[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix for Windows quoting issues (fixes #1515)

[Peter Bex]

Hi all,

Here's a patch for #1515.  It turns out to be quite invasive because the
quotation stuff was completely messed up.  Even on *nix, chicken-install
didn't work when CHICKEN was installed to a PREFIX path with spaces in it!

I tested this on *nix with PREFIX "~/chicken 5 with spaces"
and on Windows with PREFIX "C:/c5+test" like Kris tested it.

After fixing all the quoting issues, I finally ran into this weirdness
when running the tests:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9964865/c-system-not-working-when-there-are-spaces-in-two-different-parameters#9965141

Note that this only holds for system(), it does not seem to be necessary
in batch files.

I can't quite find the words to express how I felt about this when I
read it.  Just Windows being Windows, as usual, I guess...

The second patch fixes a type declaration issue I found while working
on the first patch: "qs" accepts a second optional argument, but the
types database only knew about the first argument.

Cheers,
Peter

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