[haiku-development] Re: /bin/c++ wrapper script
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:45:51 +0200 CEST
>
> On 2008-09-25 at 14:06:57 [+0200], François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > Howdy,
> > >
> > > as noted in #2770 our /bin/c++ wrapper script (which is identical
> > > to
> > > Be's
> > > BTW) doesn't deal correctly with whitespace in path names.
> > > Besides
> > > that I
> > > wouldn't even know how to do that in a shell script, does anyone
> > > know
> > > a
> > > reason why the script is used at all? The shell variables for
> > > additional C
> > > or C++ flags are empty by default and I don't think I've ever
> > > seen an
> > > example where they are set. Unless there are objections, I would
> > > simply
> > > replace the script by a symlink to g++.
> >
> > I thought "$@" should actually work correctly with spaces...
>
> As is it doesn't, but I just learned, quoting it does -- i.e. it
> doesn't
> produce a single string as I would have expected.
>
Indeed it does. It's "$@" that is used in Zeta.
François.
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