[rt.cpan.org #122949] PAR-Packer-1.37 executables split arguments containing whitespace

[email protected] ("Roderich Schupp via RT") Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:32:16 -0400

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Thu Sep 07 14:32:15 2017: Request 122949 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
       Queue: PAR-Packer
     Subject: PAR-Packer-1.37 executables split arguments containing whitespace
   Broken in: 1.037
    Severity: Important
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122949 >


On 2017-09-03 15:13:11, APG wrote:
> Windows executables built with pp 1.37 split any arguments containing
> whitespace.
> 
> The bug can be seen with a one-line script: print join(':', @ARGV)
> 
> Packed with pp 1.36, `a.exe "foo bar"` prints "foo bar".
> Packed with pp 1.37, `a.exe "foo bar"` prints "foo:bar".
> 
> Encountered on Windows 7 under Strawberry perl 5.24 and 5.26.

Then we need to quote the strings passed to spawnvp()...
Can you check with GitHub master?

Cheers, Roderich