Re: libtool generates temporary wrappers with improperly escaped LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Brandon Philips wrote on Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 07:59:34AM CET:
> On 07:37 Thu 18 Dec 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > We can think about supporting it when and where this is suitably safe to
> > do so, but my gut reaction would be "don't do it when it hurts".
> 
> I completely agree that people shouldn't do this. I wouldn't have
> noticed usually but openSUSE uses colons as separators for project
> names.

Can they be talked into using only characters from the set of portable
file names, as defined by Posix?  I mean, they wouldn't start using
spaces in their names just for fun^Wpain, no?

Thanks,
Ralf