Mangled argument vector choking on spaces?

[Kip Warner]

Hey list,

My configure.ac updates CXXFLAGS periodically during execution, such as
via pkg-config. Some of the include paths returned from pkg-config's
--cflags contain spaces which I require. It's paths are properly
escaped, so this is not a problem thus far.

        $ pkg-config --cflags libfoo
        -I/some/path\ space

The problem is then when CXXFLAGS is amended with what is returned
breaking further conftests. This is fine:

        CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I/some/path/no_spaces"

This breaks:

        CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -I/some/path\ space"

All succeeding conftests appear to bail. The config.log is revealing:

        ...
        configure:9444: g++ -c -g3 -std=c++11  ... -I/some/path\ spaces  
conftest.cpp >&5
        g++: error: spaces: No such file or directory
        ...

If I run what appears to be what configure executed (g++ ...), it
executes fine. However, by the looks of it, the argument vector was
broken up unintentionally.

I'm assuming I am not doing something correctly. Any help appreciated.

Respectfully,

-- 
Kip Warner -- Senior Software Engineer
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