Add some more tests for handling unusual variables such as those that
are quoted or that contain shell characters. This should help make the
--variable output more reliable in the future.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93284
If a --variable is requested, make sure to remove the quoting since it's
likely the value will be used verbatim in shell command substitution. If
the quotes remain in the value, they'd get embedded in the shell
variable, too.
Freedesktop #67904 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67904)
Often other Libs flags have semantics that are based on their context
with -l arguments. For example, the GNU linker options
-Bdynamic/-Bstatic pertain only to the objects or link options that
follow them. So, a valid link command containing these options would get
mangled by pkg-config since it separates -l flags from others..
-Bdynamic -la -Bstatic -lb -> -Bdynamic -Bstatic -la -lb
Instead, output -l and other Libs flags in a single pass so they mantain
their ordering.
Freedesktop #19950 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19950)
Outputting other Libs flags such as -Wl,foo just prior to the -l Libs
flags gives a better chance the --libs output will be correct. This
should be no change in the usage of the output since pkg-config
currently groups all flag types together.
The run_test shell function was running pkg-config with arguments stored
in an environment variable. This has problems when trying to pass shell
special characters with the proper escaping. Instead, pass the arguments
to the test where they can maintain correct formatting through use of
the special variable "$@".
Although the trick of finding a POSIX shell in the system PATH works
fine most of the time, it has some drawbacks.
* The commands must be copied into every test script.
* The scripts are always forced to re-execute themselves.
* There's no guarantee the sh found in `getconf PATH` is a POSIX shell
and there's no way to override it.
Move the handling of this shell to configure where we can detect it
once. This gives preference to bash and ksh since they're typically
POSIX compatible. It also uses the current PATH with the getconf PATH at
the end which should allow things to work on platforms where getconf
might not be available like mingw/msys.
By specifying the shell in TESTS_ENVIRONMENT, automake will run each
script with this shell and we can drop the re-exec dance.
Allow paths and other components to contain shell metacharacters, but
escape them on output. White space has to be escaped in the input
files using quotes or backslashes
Freedesktop.org #3571
