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Re: win32 short name and IFS='~'
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Naofumi Yasufuku |
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Re: win32 short name and IFS='~' |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:58:16 +0900 |
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Sorry for the delay,
At Tue, 22 Apr 2003 01:24:57 -0500,
Robert Boehne wrote:
>
> Naofumi,
>
> I tried your original patch that moved the expansions around,
> but it caused problems for me. The most delicate part of Libtool
> is the quoting, if anything in the quoting changes, it's almost
> certain to break something. Quoting in Libtool has to work
> the same in bash as it does on a wide variety of Bourne shells
> with various bugs.
Yes. I know. I don't want to change such delicate thing if possible.
> Besides, wouldn't we all rather have the IFS hack removed anyway?
> There will always be some situation where someone can't use any
> character that we come up with, so let's not use any of them. ;)
> Now I realize that you have spent time on fixing this, and aren't
> too happy about the prospect of starting over with a different approach.
> I do sympathize with that, but as I see it eliminating the setting
> of IFS is the only solution that isn't just trading one problem for
> another.
>
I agree with you. We should say goodbye to the IFS hack, and replace
them with shell functions or something.
Regards,
--Naofumi
RE: win32 short name and IFS='~', Boehne, Robert, 2003/04/17