Re: Linking with '-L /path/to/lib' (note the space!)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> Hi Olaf,
>
> * Olaf Lenz wrote on Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:56:10PM CEST:
> > When I pass the option "-L /path/to/lib" (note the space between -L and
> > /path/to/lib) to libtool in linking mode, libtool does not fail nor does
> > it give a warning, but instead the option will be interpreted as two
> > options, so that the linker command will get the current working
> > directory as flag to the linker (from -L), plus /path/to/lib as compiler
> > input argument.
>
> Thanks for the bug report.  OK to put you in THANKS?
>
> Others, OK for the patch below, or should we just parse that construct
> correctly?

Please apply this patch.  Allowing spaces in arguments will simply 
discover otherwise non-existing bugs somewhere else.

Bob
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