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Re: pathnames containing spaces
James Amundson wrote:
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 06:21, Earnie Boyd wrote:
The usual response to this problem is
_don't_use_path_names_with_spaces_.
Heh heh.
There are different ways to modify
what you are doing that it is not worth modifying the autotools to
handle the space in path name problem.
Wait a minute... You were joking, right? An important piece of
infrastructure like automake shouldn't have amateurish mistakes like
forgetting to properly quote pathnames in scripts and makefiles.
Surely the automake maintainers realize that this is a bug, don't they?
No, it is not an automake or autoconf bug. Autoconf and Automake are
about portability and spaces in path names are not portable.
For instance you could use the
DOS 8.3 modified name which for ``Program Files'' is usually
``Progra~1''. Or you with Cygwin and MSYS you create a mount point and
map ``C:\Program Files'' to it, e.g. ``echo "c:/progra~1 /opt" >>
/etc/fstab''; then ``./configure --prefix=/opt''.
Thanks for the workarounds. Obviously, the mount point business won't
work for programs running outside of MSYS (or Cygwin). None of them will
work on non-windows platforms.
You are complaining about automake which itself will not execute outside
of Cygwin or MSYS or someother posix compatiblity layer.
Earnie.
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