"Alastair Reid"
So, if people could give me / the CVS list an indication of what remains to be done on the parts they're working on, that'd be helpful.
I thought I'd finished everything and could get the HGL stuff up and going with the new ffi when...
1) I tried using ffihugs on Linux:
Yoiks: you have to put double quotes round the +L argument:
ffihugs +G +L"\"foo bar\"" Baz
The reason is that server.c tries to split each option argument into a list of option arguments.
How can I work around this? (I'm tempted to fix server.c to _not_ do this - but it's clear that someone once thought it was a good idea to make it work this way so I'd probably break something else in the process.)
The shell strips away unescaped double/single quotes, so this shouldn't come as much of a surprise (and isn't really a Hugs issue, per se.) If you don't want to support multiple -L options on a single command line, I don't really see a way out beside adding an escaped set of quotes. input.c:readFilename() does elide double quotes though -- a version that don't could easily be provided, but it won't really fix your problem.
2) I tried using ffihugs on Win32 but...
Hugs can't detect if the invocation of CC fails because (IIRC) Win32's 'system' call always returns success.
How can we fix this? Is there something else we can use instead?
Works fine here (i.e., compilation failures are reported as errors.) --sigbjorn