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guile-snarf is broken

It seems as though guile-snarf is passing along arguments incorrectly.
My copy (from the latest snapshot) looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
# Extract the initialization actions for builtin things.

gcc -E -DSCM_MAGIC_SNARFER $* | grep "^ *% *% *%" | sed -e "s/^ *% *% *%//"

                           ^^

This is wrong for /bin/sh.  `$*' means the rest of the arguments, but
resplit on whitespace.  "$@" is what you want;  from sh man page:

     if $@ is within a pair of double quotes,
     the  positional  parameters  are  substituted  and   quoted,
     separated by unquoted spaces ("$1" "$2" ... )

so guile-snarf should be:

#!/bin/sh
# Extract the initialization actions for builtin things.

gcc -E -DSCM_MAGIC_SNARFER "$@" | grep "^ *% *% *%" | sed -e "s/^ *% *% *%//"


This actually causes problems when building scwm.

Greg J. Badros
gjb@cs.washington.edu
Seattle, WA  USA
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gjb