Scott James Remnant wrote:
It should also be noted that Libtool suffers heavily from this problem
also. The shell uses spaces as separators, which means Libtool isn't
even able to install to a directory containing a space:
dependency_libs=-L/mnt/Program Files/unix/lib -lfoo
comes out as three
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 00:08, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Good luck with fixing the white space problems in every process that
reads arguments and uses white space as a delimiter of some sort.
Earnie has a very good point - GNU Arch faces the same problem with a
limited set of tools - patch, diff and
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
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
James Amundson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
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
Russ == Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Russ make uses a space as a separator, and getting it to accept spaces in file
Russ names is extremely difficult or impossible depending on the version of
Russ make that you're using.
Yeah, and the problem is made worse because quoting for make
James == James Amundson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James Wait a minute... You were joking, right? An important
James piece of infrastructure like automake shouldn't have
James amateurish mistakes like forgetting to properly quote
James pathnames in scripts and makefiles.
James Surely the
