Libtool/zsh quoting problem

[David Gómez <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all ;),

From some time till now i was having problems compiling certaing packages, in
particular those ones that used macros in the command with spaces in it. I
thought it was a libtool problem, but the culprit seems zsh ;).

I was missing the origin of the problem because in another systems with zsh
everything compiled correctly. The difference was that in those machines /bin/sh
pointed to a bash shell (no problem) and in my system /bin/sh points to zsh.

All libtool scripts start with /bin/sh, so everything will work ok if the 
sh symlink is a bash shell.

A example, with the littlecms source (http://www.littlecms.com):

[huma@fargo] [~/lcms-1.15] % make
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/huma/lcms-1.15/src'
if /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"lcms\"
-DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"lcms\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.15\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"lcms\
1.15\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1
-DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1
-DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1
-DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG=4
-DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG_LONG=8 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG=8
-DHasJPEG=1 -DHasZLIB=1 -DHasTIFF=1 -DHAVE_TIFFCONF_H=1  -I. -I. -I../include
-I../include    -g -O2 -MT cmscnvrt.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/cmscnvrt.Tpo" -c -o
cmscnvrt.lo cmscnvrt.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/cmscnvrt.Tpo" ".deps/cmscnvrt.Plo";
else rm -f ".deps/cmscnvrt.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
 gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"lcms\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"lcms\"
-DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.15\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"lcms 1.15\"
-DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1
-DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1
-DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1
-DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_INT=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG=4
-DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG=4 -DSIZEOF_LONG_LONG=8 -DSIZEOF_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG=8
-DHasJPEG=1 -DHasZLIB=1 -DHasTIFF=1 -DHAVE_TIFFCONF_H=1 -I. -I. -I../include
-I../include -g -O2 -MT cmscnvrt.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/cmscnvrt.Tpo -c
cmscnvrt.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/cmscnvrt.o gcc: 1.15": No such file or
directory
make[1]: *** [cmscnvrt.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/huma/lcms-1.15/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Where -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"lcms 1.15\" in the gcc command should be quoted
to avoid the error.

I noticed this problem too compiling other packages: Xorg modular and libIDL.

Is there any option in zsh to avoid this problem?

thanks,

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David Gómez                                      Jabber ID: davidge@xxxxxxxxxx