2000-01-04 Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu>

	* pexecute.c: Conditionally include string.h.
	(fix_argv): Handle embedded whitespace in args for Mingw32.


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@31214 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4

2 files changed, 48 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libiberty/ChangeLog b/libiberty/ChangeLog
index 8fc990b206a..a0b4ed39d50 100644
--- a/libiberty/ChangeLog
+++ b/libiberty/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-01-04  Mumit Khan  <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu>
+
+	* pexecute.c: Conditionally include string.h.
+	(fix_argv): Handle embedded whitespace in args for Mingw32. 
+
 2000-01-04  Kaveh R. Ghazi  <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
 
 	* configure.in (ac_libiberty_warn_cflags): Turn on warnings if
diff --git a/libiberty/pexecute.c b/libiberty/pexecute.c
index dffd04f5a91..5003f1fe4d5 100644
--- a/libiberty/pexecute.c
+++ b/libiberty/pexecute.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* Utilities to execute a program in a subprocess (possibly linked by pipes
    with other subprocesses), and wait for it.
-   Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of the libiberty library.
 Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.  */
 
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <errno.h>
+#ifdef HAVE_STRING_H
+#include <string.h>
+#endif
 #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
 #include <unistd.h>
 #endif
@@ -279,6 +282,45 @@ fix_argv (argvec)
         argvec[i] = temp;
       }
 
+  for (i = 0; argvec[i] != 0; i++)
+    {
+      if (strpbrk (argvec[i], " \t"))
+        {
+	  int len, trailing_backslash;
+	  char *temp;
+
+	  len = strlen (argvec[i]);
+	  trailing_backslash = 0;
+
+	  /* There is an added complication when an arg with embedded white
+	     space ends in a backslash (such as in the case of -iprefix arg
+	     passed to cpp). The resulting quoted strings gets misinterpreted
+	     by the command interpreter -- it thinks that the ending quote
+	     is escaped by the trailing backslash and things get confused. 
+	     We handle this case by escaping the trailing backslash, provided
+	     it was not escaped in the first place.  */
+	  if (len > 1 
+	      && argvec[i][len-1] == '\\' 
+	      && argvec[i][len-2] != '\\')
+	    {
+	      trailing_backslash = 1;
+	      ++len;			/* to escape the final backslash. */
+	    }
+
+	  len += 2;			/* and for the enclosing quotes. */
+
+	  temp = xmalloc (len + 1);
+	  temp[0] = '"';
+	  strcpy (temp + 1, argvec[i]);
+	  if (trailing_backslash)
+	    temp[len-2] = '\\';
+	  temp[len-1] = '"';
+	  temp[len] = '\0';
+
+	  argvec[i] = temp;
+	}
+    }
+
   return (const char * const *) argvec;
 }
 #endif /* __CYGWIN__ */