Re: [EOT] Xcode Link Error - What does this mean?
Re: [EOT] Xcode Link Error - What does this mean?
- Subject: Re: [EOT] Xcode Link Error - What does this mean?
- From: "Timothy Reaves" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 09:43:08 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, May 5, 2008 15:06, Chris Espinosa wrote:
>
> On May 5, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Greg Guerin wrote:
>
>
>> Mark Wagner wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It's a bug, not a UNIX issue. On my standard-issue *NIX system at
>>> home, I have no trouble compiling a file named "filename with space -
>>> and&other?ch,ar'ac)ters.c". If Xcode can't convey such filenames to
>>> gcc in a way that gcc can handle properly, it's Xcode that's at fault.
>>>
>>
>> It depends on the tool. The linker uses comma in the -filelist
>> option. It doesn't use any of the other punctuation in your example, nor
>> does it use comma in any other context. So as long as it's quoted as
>> appropriate (for shell use), then quirky punctuation is just quirky
>> punctuation (no semantics for the tool). You actually have to use the
>> punctuation mark (or whatever symbol) that the particular tool has
>> semantics for, AND use it in the right context.
>>
>> So, is there a way to quote or escape commas in the linker's -filelist
>> option? If not, there ought to be. If so, then Xcode should use it.
>> Only
>> one of those is Xcode's fault.
>>
>> For years and years, my standard filename to break Unix tools with was
>> "-r", or "-r.c". "Starts with -" is so loaded with semantics it was
>> common for even simple commands to fail with it, sometimes spectacularly.
>>
>
> Please stop debating this. A bug has been filed. Assignment of fault
> and responsibility for a fix is a task for our engineers and managers, not
> our customers.
>
> Chris
Ya, 'cause customers couldn't POSSIBLY know as much as Apple's engineers...
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