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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-6467

deployment-x11.html, plugandpaint.sh contains a bug, it could break the arguments passed to the application

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P3: Somewhat important
    • 4.7.4
    • 4.6.0
    • Documentation
    • None
    • Linux, Unix
    • 40909df6c87f7f2bb8958d817e119746ddb48c05

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      Already reported a while ago so there is a copy n' paste :

      Hi again Florent,

      On Friday, 22. Aug 2008 12:11 Florent CHANTRET wrote:
      > > Hi support team,
      > >
      > > Another serious problem (I spend hours on this as I thought the
      > > problem was due to compiliing dynamically on an old system then having
      > > problems on a fresher one) regarding your deployment script
      > > plugandpaint.sh :
      > >
      > > In the last line, you call :
      > >
      > > $dirname/$appname $*
      > >
      > > But, it should be
      > >
      > > $dirname/$appname "$@"
      > >
      > > If you don't put "$@" rather than $*; the args passed to the
      > > application won't respect the quoted args when there is a space in the
      > > arg so the arg will be breaked in two arguments...

      Indeed, you are correct.

      Thanks for spotting this, I'll make sure this gets passed on to our doc
      team as well.

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