Re: executable wrapper on mingw mangles arguments

[Roumen Petrov]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Bruno,
>
> thanks for the bug report.
>
> * Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:55:27PM CEST:
> > This is a severe regression in libtool 2.x w.r.t. 1.5.26. On mingw, several
> > of the gettext tests fail because the executable wrapper created by the
> > libtool script does two bad things:
> > 1) It converts argv[0] from a filename with backslashes to a filename with
> >    slashes.
> > 2) It does word splitting on arguments that contain spaces.
> Is the second point exposed by
>   make check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS='-v -d -x -k "execute mode"'
> ?
>
> If not, then tests/execute-mode.at should be amended to expose this.
> If yes, does your patch make the test pass?
I post before 2-3 months one request about tests cases.
Most of the tests are skipped since one of the AT macros search for 
program without .exe suffix, aka 1.5x wrapper script. Since 2.4(?) it is 
replaced by wrapper binary , i.e. with .exe suffix and libtool test case 
 skip most of the tests

> Thanks,
> Ralf
Roumen