On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:21:42AM +0100, Dean Wakerley wrote:
> I ran into this problem when trying to buiild a TCL extension. Building
> the extension requires pulling in with source tclConfig.sh which
> provides various settings. TCL_DEFS contains space separated -D
> arguments to pass
On 6/17/16 6:21 AM, Dean Wakerley wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 42
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> The expansion of a variable containing spaces splits on all spaces
> including escaped/backslashed space.
This analysis isn't correct, and the description above describes
On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:21:42 +0100, Dean Wakerley wrote:
> Description: The expansion of a variable containing spaces splits on all
> spaces including escaped/backslashed space.
It's not a bug, you probably want
eval ./echo_args.sh ${TCL_DEFS}
but you're sitting on very thin ice here.
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D.
From: deanw
To: bug-bash@gnu.org
Subject: Backslashed space in variable expansion does not prevent splitting.
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686 OS: cygwin Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -
DPROGRAM='bash.exe' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE=
