wrapPythonPrograms: preserve quoted strings from makeWrapperArgs

Currently, if a user tries to to set a variable that contains
spaces, it will be broken up before being passed to wrapProgram.

This commit resolves that by converting makeWrapperArgs to an
array that preserves any quoted elements using bash's parser.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/generic/wrap.sh b/pkgs/development/python-modules/generic/wrap.sh
index fa6a4d0102f3..5d8e2e986735 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/generic/wrap.sh
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/generic/wrap.sh
@@ -44,16 +44,15 @@ wrapPythonProgramsIn() {
                 # wrapProgram creates the executable shell script described
                 # above. The script will set PYTHONPATH and PATH variables.!
                 # (see pkgs/build-support/setup-hooks/make-wrapper.sh)
-                local wrap_args="$f \
-                                 --prefix PYTHONPATH ':' $program_PYTHONPATH \
-                                 --prefix PATH ':' $program_PATH:$dir/bin"
+                local -a wrap_args=("$f"
+                                 --prefix PYTHONPATH ':' "$program_PYTHONPATH"
+                                 --prefix PATH ':' "$program_PATH:$dir/bin")
 
                 # Add any additional arguments provided by makeWrapperArgs
                 # argument to buildPythonPackage.
-                for arg in $makeWrapperArgs; do
-                    wrap_args="$wrap_args $arg"
-                done
-                wrapProgram $wrap_args
+                local -a user_args="($makeWrapperArgs)"
+                local -a wrapProgramArgs=("${wrap_args[@]}" "${user_args[@]}")
+                wrapProgram "${wrapProgramArgs[@]}"
             fi
         fi
     done