Different outputs for space-containing path #139

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2017-09-19T10:00:02Z

karen-arutyunov commented

2017-09-19 10:00:02 +00:00

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The following Cflags space-containing values are equivalent:

Cflags: -I/A\ B
Cflags: '-I/A B'

However 'pkgconf --cflags' prints them differently (in contrast to 'pkg-config --cflags').

In the first case: -I/A\ B
Which means a single option '-I/A B'

In the second case: -I/A B
Which means 2 options: '-I/A' and 'B'

This issue resides on libpkgconf library level as pkgconf_pkg_cflags() returns lists of different pkgconf_fragment_t objects as well. In both cases the list contains 1 element which data member contains

-I/A\ B

in the first case and

-I/A B

in the second case.

It would be natural to expect that pkgconf_fragment_t object always contains unquoted value with unescaped space character, so in both cases it should be:

-I/A B

The following Cflags space-containing values are equivalent: Cflags: -I/A\ B Cflags: '-I/A B' However 'pkgconf --cflags' prints them differently (in contrast to 'pkg-config --cflags'). In the first case: -I/A\ B Which means a single option '-I/A B' In the second case: -I/A B Which means 2 options: '-I/A' and 'B' This issue resides on libpkgconf library level as pkgconf_pkg_cflags() returns lists of different pkgconf_fragment_t objects as well. In both cases the list contains 1 element which data member contains -I/A\ B in the first case and -I/A B in the second case. It would be natural to expect that pkgconf_fragment_t object always contains unquoted value with unescaped space character, so in both cases it should be: -I/A B

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