command lines arguments to "makensis" are handled differently on win32 and darwin if they have spaces

[francois@…]

The port of NSIS ("makensis") does not handle correctly command-line arguments that contain spaces in a property value. For example, if I have a script that uses a "MY_CAPTION" property, I cannot set a property with a space in the command line. All this: makensis '-DMY_CAPTION=my hello' test.nsi makensis "-DMY_CAPTION=my hello" test.nsi makensis -DMY_CAPTION="my hello" test.nsi makensis -DMY_CAPTION='my hello' test.nsi etc.. will not work. In all cases, NSIS will believe that the property finishes after "my" and will think that "hello" is the name of the script to run; it gives the following output:

Command line defined: "MY_CAPTION=my\"

Can't open script "hello"

The same thing works OK on windows.

If you want, I can work on it, I've look where it is in the code, and it's probably easy to fix. Just, before I work on it, can I know if it would be released very soon, and if there's a chance that someone would fix the other bug I entered (bug #7502), and would do a new release of nsis port ? :-)

thanks

[francois@…]

The script I used. Note that if you don't have space in MY_CAPTION, you'll still hit bug# 7502

[blb@…]

Assigning to maintainer.

[markd@…]

The port has been updated to 2.17. Did that fix the problem?

[markd@…]

New port was released. Reopen if there are still problems.