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pathnames containing spaces
- From: James Amundson <amundson at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:40:37 -0600
- Subject: pathnames containing spaces
- Organization: Maxima team
As far as I can tell, it is impossible to get automake to work with
pathnames containing spaces. The canonical example is
./configure --prefix="/c/Program Files"
make install
which will cause make to choke because install will be called with
unquoted pathnames. I don't know if there are other examples -- I have
never made it past this one.
Have I missed something, or is this a bug? It is a serious problem when
using MSYS or Cygwin.
--Jim Amundson