Re: meson vs windows perl

On 2024-04-05 Fr 10:12, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> 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.
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OK, this has been fixed and checked. The attached is what I propose.


cheers


andrew

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