Re: LTCC containing whitespace

[libtool-patches]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:04:24AM +1000, Kevin Ryde wrote:
> I think the LTCC setup emitted to the generated libtool script needs
> quotes in case it contains whitespace, per below.
> 
> This happened to me on hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20, where AC_PROG_CC_STDC
> appends -Ae to $CC to put it into ANSI-mode, ie. CC="cc -Ae", and that
> value gets used for LTCC.  I guess a user might do something similar
> manually too.
> 
> The symptom of missing the quotes was
> 
>         ../libtool[73]: -Ae:  not found.
> 
> on each compile or link, being an attempt to execute the program "-Ae"
> in
> 
>         LTCC=cc -Ae
> 
> Similar can be expected on the other systems where AC_PROG_CC_STDC
> mungs $CC.
> 
>         * libtool.m4 (AC_LIBTOOL_CONFIG): Quote LTCC emitted, to
>         preserve whitespace.

Your patch isn't correct. I have a correct patch already submitted to
libtool-patches for the HEAD branch and it's trivial to get into the
1.4 branch. See:
  http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool-patches/2001-September/001533.html

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)