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Re: 3.3-branch QA assessment
On Jan 27, 2003, "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Maybe Alexandre could take a look at the libtool problem?
It's a known problem. I've already told H.J. what the proper way to
fix it would be, but it's probably a lot of work, and I'm afraid I
can't volunteer so much time atm. Still, there's something I don't
understand: why is it that we actually use an object file with a `$'
character in its name? Couldn't we just name it something else?
> Perhaps it's solved in a more recent version that can be imported?
Unlikely. It's very pervasive :-( In the beginning, libtool was very
careful about shell active characters, but at some point the
complexity overwhelmed the maintainers, and we ended up using some
code in which it is not clear whether active characters have been
protected or not, so things break. Just protecting characters, like
H.J. suggested, is not a correct fix, since it will fix some cases
while breaking others.
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