[Distutils] OSF/1 glitch?

[Greg Ward]

On 15 June 2000, A.M. Kuchling said:
> This was reported on the XML-SIG by Mark Favas, and looks like it
> might be a Distutils problem.
> 
> =================
> The link step also appears to have a wildcard quoting problem. The ld
> command used is:
> ld -shared -expect_unresolved "*"
[...]
> Presumably the link step quotes the * for the sake of the shell, and
> sysconfig.py doesn't know this, so it winds up passing "*" as the
> argument.

You mean what's happening is this:
   exec(['ld', '-shared', '-expect_unresolved', '"*"'])

when it should be
   exec(['ld', '-shared', '-expect_unresolved', '*'])

Hmmm.  The right solution, of course, is to shlex everything coming out
of Python's Makefile, and then quote it again when we print it out.  ;-( 
Sigh... added to the todo list...

        Greg
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