validate script bug

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 08:04:52PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 
> It seems there is a bug in the validate script. For me (on Linux), validate
> is failings with the following error at the bootom of this email.
> 
> Is anybody else seeing this problem?

Works for me.

> /usr/local/bin/gcc -E  -undef -traditional -P -DINSTALLING -DLIB_DIR='"/home/erikd/Git/ghc-upstream/bindisttest/install   dir/lib/ghc-7.7.20120803"' -DINCLUDE_DIR='"/home/erikd/Git/ghc-upstream/bindisttest/install   dir/lib/ghc-7.7.20120803/include"' -DPAPI_INCLUDE_DIR="" -DPAPI_LIB_DIR="" -x c -Iincludes -Iincludes/dist -Iincludes/dist-derivedconstants/header -Iincludes/dist-ghcconstants/header rts/package.conf.in -o rts/package.conf.install.raw
> gcc: error: dir/lib/ghc-7.7.20120803": No such file or directory
> gcc: error: dir/lib/ghc-7.7.20120803/include": No such file or directory

My guess would be that /usr/local/bin/gcc is a shell script that doesn't
quote its arguments correctly.


Thanks
Ian