Bug#230242: dpkg's debian/rules: fails when LDFLAGS envvar contains spaces

[Fabrice Bauzac <noon@noon.dnsalias.net>]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.18
Severity: normal


I have a custom LDFLAGS environment variable with several -Lxxx flags.
The problem is that line 50 of debian/rules doesn't quote $(LDFLAGS)
to use it as an environment variable.

	cd $(@D) && LDFLAGS=$(LDFLAGS) $(shell echo "$(patsubst $(CURDIR)/%,%,$(@D))" | sed -e 's,^[^/][^/]*$$,..,;s,/[^/][^/]*,/..,g' )/configure \

It ought to be:

	cd $(@D) && LDFLAGS="$(LDFLAGS)" $(shell echo "$(patsubst $(CURDIR)/%,%,$(@D))" | sed -e 's,^[^/][^/]*$$,..,;s,/[^/][^/]*,/..,g' )/configure \

Note: I don't know why there is such an environment variable
assignment in debian/rules, since I can't find any other reference to
LDFLAGS anywhere.  Wouldn't it be better to remove the assignment:

	cd $(@D) && $(shell echo "$(patsubst $(CURDIR)/%,%,$(@D))" | sed -e 's,^[^/][^/]*$$,..,;s,/[^/][^/]*,/..,g' )/configure \

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux noon.dnsalias.net 2.4.19 #1 Wed Mar 12 19:29:19 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  dselect                     1.10.18      a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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