On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Somehow I missed that we have a shellescape proc. This is very exciting!
I've wanted this function for a long time, and I'm just realizing now
that it exists and that we've had it for 6 years.
https://github.com/macports/macports-base/commit/494a1feafa2ad46c66f9714b760fb5b50ff5dd48
Thank you, Clemens!
We should be using this everywhere, such as in portextract.tcl.
It looks like it is available for use in portfiles too. Portfiles should
switch to using this when specifying filenames or paths in a system call
instead of manually quoting them with 'quotes' (or, more usually, not
doing anything).
Looks like neither shellescape nor quotemeta are documented in the guide.
Perhaps with good reason:
MacML @21:03:49.192:: Error: Failed to extract curl-ca-bundle: invalid command name
"shellescape"
This happens on 10.5, 10.8, and 10.12. The missing binary archives are
consistent with this.
Fred Wright
