Re: meson vs windows perl

On 2024-04-05 Fr 08:25, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Here is an attempt to fix all that. It's ugly, but I think it's more 
> principled.
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> First, instead of getting the ldopts and then trying to filter out the 
> ldflags and ccdlflags, it tells perl not to include those in the first 
> place, by overriding a couple of routines in ExtUtils::Embed. And 
> second, it's smarter about splitting what's left, so that it doesn't 
> split on a space that's in a quoted item. The perl that's used to do 
> that second bit is not pretty, but it has been tested on the system 
> where the problem arose and apparently cures the problem. (No doubt 
> some perl guru could improve it.) It also works on my Ubuntu system, 
> so I don't think we'll be breaking anything (famous last words).
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Apparently I spoke too soon. Please ignore the above for now.


cheers


andrew

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