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--- Comment #25 from Thomas Wolff ---
If you want an option with your preferred fancy behaviour, you should add a new
option, like --preprocessor-prog, and not break an established interface.
Whether the original design is appreciated or not,
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--- Comment #17 from Thomas Wolff ---
This is getting picky. I wouldn't say there's double quoting involved.
The string given to the -preprocessor arguments seems to be simply fed into a
call of popen(), and that should be fine. It may contain
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--- Comment #6 from Thomas Wolff ---
Please fix this by simply reverting to the 2.35 version.
Some testing reveals that the solution proposed by Johannes Schindelin actually
worked already in 2.35, i.e. spaces can be embedded by quoting, e.g.
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--- Comment #5 from Thomas Wolff ---
Unfortunately the patch doesn't fix the issue, as it only decides how to handle
the whole string but does not break at that position.
Also please note Johannes' suggestion to prefer a more state-of-the-art
Component: binutils
Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
Reporter: towo at towo dot net
Target Milestone: ---
Recent change in response to #4356 apparently breaks some build processes,
see https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/2379
Whatever the solution will be
