Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Nov 2015 02:25:51 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Mon Nov 16 21:25:51 2015 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40686 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1ZyVxv-0004Ii-0R for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:25:51 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51968) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZyVxZ-0004ID-L9 for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:25:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZyVxY-00075B-4m for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:25:29 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:51533) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZyVxY-000754-0k for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:25:28 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33736) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZyVxW-0007Jr-Vh for bug-libtool@HIDDEN; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:25:27 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZyVxU-00074n-Ai for bug-libtool@HIDDEN; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:25:26 -0500 Received: from blade.simplesystems.org ([65.66.246.74]:56850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZyVxT-00074L-H5 for bug-libtool@HIDDEN; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:25:24 -0500 Received: from freddy.simplesystems.org (freddy.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.65]) by blade.simplesystems.org (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id tAH29TMR018296; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:09:29 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:09:28 -0600 (CST) From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@HIDDEN> X-X-Sender: bfriesen@HIDDEN To: Earnie <earnie@HIDDEN> Subject: Re: bug#21910: libtool should check that directory names do not contain spaces In-Reply-To: <564A3D42.9060005@HIDDEN> Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.01.1511162005360.1673@HIDDEN> References: <20151113160946.GB28805@HIDDEN> <564A3D42.9060005@HIDDEN> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (blade.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.90]); Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:09:29 -0600 (CST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit Cc: 21910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-libtool@HIDDEN X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Earnie wrote: > On 11/13/2015 11:09 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> libtool doesn't support directory names with spaces, and this will >> not be fixed (at least in the near future). In order to avoid obscure >> error messages (because internally, such paths get split and so on), >> libtool should generate code to make sure that such directory names >> are detected as soon as possible and to output a clear error message. >> > > Why not support all characters allowed in the file system? Any ASCII > character or now-a-days UNICODE file names are supported in the OS. Yes > the user needs to be careful with executing a script with white space > and special characters in the file name but not allowing it at all is a > bit fallacious. The problem is that libtool is a portable shell script and arguments need to be passed to the utilities it executes, with all that that entails (e.g. argument splitting and handling of special quote characters). If libtool was a binary, then this problem would be gone. A future issue is that libtool is configured via an autoconf configure script which may be a 1MB portable shell script, which also needs to survive the torture-test. Somehow this still usually manages to run under MSYS. :-) Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@HIDDEN, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
bug-libtool@HIDDEN:bug#21910; Package libtool.
Full text available.Received: (at 21910) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Nov 2015 02:09:52 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Mon Nov 16 21:09:52 2015 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40680 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1ZyViA-0003um-7I for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:09:52 -0500 Received: from blade.simplesystems.org ([65.66.246.74]:56787) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <bfriesen@HIDDEN>) id 1ZyVi7-0003ud-SV for 21910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:09:32 -0500 Received: from freddy.simplesystems.org (freddy.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.65]) by blade.simplesystems.org (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id tAH29TMR018296; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:09:29 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:09:28 -0600 (CST) From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@HIDDEN> X-X-Sender: bfriesen@HIDDEN To: Earnie <earnie@HIDDEN> Subject: Re: bug#21910: libtool should check that directory names do not contain spaces In-Reply-To: <564A3D42.9060005@HIDDEN> Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.01.1511162005360.1673@HIDDEN> References: <20151113160946.GB28805@HIDDEN> <564A3D42.9060005@HIDDEN> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (blade.simplesystems.org [65.66.246.90]); Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:09:29 -0600 (CST) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 21910 Cc: 21910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-libtool@HIDDEN X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Earnie wrote: > On 11/13/2015 11:09 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> libtool doesn't support directory names with spaces, and this will >> not be fixed (at least in the near future). In order to avoid obscure >> error messages (because internally, such paths get split and so on), >> libtool should generate code to make sure that such directory names >> are detected as soon as possible and to output a clear error message. >> > > Why not support all characters allowed in the file system? Any ASCII > character or now-a-days UNICODE file names are supported in the OS. Yes > the user needs to be careful with executing a script with white space > and special characters in the file name but not allowing it at all is a > bit fallacious. The problem is that libtool is a portable shell script and arguments need to be passed to the utilities it executes, with all that that entails (e.g. argument splitting and handling of special quote characters). If libtool was a binary, then this problem would be gone. A future issue is that libtool is configured via an autoconf configure script which may be a 1MB portable shell script, which also needs to survive the torture-test. Somehow this still usually manages to run under MSYS. :-) Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@HIDDEN, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
bug-libtool@HIDDEN:bug#21910; Package libtool.
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[96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f68sm3960180qhe.42.2015.11.16.12.32.06 for <bug-libtool@HIDDEN> (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:32:06 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: bug#21910: libtool should check that directory names do not contain spaces To: bug-libtool@HIDDEN References: <20151113160946.GB28805@HIDDEN> From: Earnie <earnie@HIDDEN> X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <564A3D42.9060005@HIDDEN> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:32:02 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151113160946.GB28805@HIDDEN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) On 11/13/2015 11:09 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > libtool doesn't support directory names with spaces, and this will > not be fixed (at least in the near future). In order to avoid obscure > error messages (because internally, such paths get split and so on), > libtool should generate code to make sure that such directory names > are detected as soon as possible and to output a clear error message. > Why not support all characters allowed in the file system? Any ASCII character or now-a-days UNICODE file names are supported in the OS. Yes the user needs to be careful with executing a script with white space and special characters in the file name but not allowing it at all is a bit fallacious. -- Earnie
bug-libtool@HIDDEN:bug#21910; Package libtool.
Full text available.Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 13 Nov 2015 16:10:06 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Fri Nov 13 11:10:06 2015 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37367 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1ZxGvM-0008Gh-OZ for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:10:05 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55878) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <vincent@HIDDEN>) id 1ZxGvI-0008GE-Qd for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:10:01 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <vincent@HIDDEN>) id 1ZxGvH-0004Nl-Uy for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:10:00 -0500 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:33204) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <vincent@HIDDEN>) id 1ZxGvH-0004Nh-SN for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:09:59 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <vincent@HIDDEN>) id 1ZxGvG-0008Nf-NW for bug-libtool@HIDDEN; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:09:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <vincent@HIDDEN>) id 1ZxGvD-0004HA-Ea for bug-libtool@HIDDEN; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:09:58 -0500 Received: from cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr ([140.77.13.17]:55100) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from <vincent@HIDDEN>) id 1ZxGvD-0004DX-85 for bug-libtool@HIDDEN; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:09:55 -0500 Received: from vlefevre by cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr with local (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from <vincent@HIDDEN>) id 1ZxGv4-0006na-PU; Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:09:46 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 17:09:46 +0100 From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN> To: bug-libtool@HIDDEN Subject: libtool should check that directory names do not contain spaces Message-ID: <20151113160946.GB28805@HIDDEN> Mail-Followup-To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>, bug-libtool@HIDDEN MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer-Info: https://www.vinc17.net/mutt/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24-6524-vl-r83103 (2015-11-09) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) libtool doesn't support directory names with spaces, and this will not be fixed (at least in the near future). In order to avoid obscure error messages (because internally, such paths get split and so on), libtool should generate code to make sure that such directory names are detected as soon as possible and to output a clear error message. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@HIDDEN> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
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