On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 08:53 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2014, Kip Warner wrote: > > > > Unfortunately I need spaces on GNU systems and possibly elsewhere. I'm > > sure there is a way to do this and it's simply a matter of coalescing > > parts of the argument vector. From what I can see configure has the > > correct arguments, but some were accidentally split. Remember that the > > arguments are already correctly escaped and if I run what was logged in > > config.log, it runs fine with the spaces. > > The problem is that configure is a huge shell script and any arguments > passed to subordinate utilities need to be escaped properly to avoid > accidental splitting. There is also the problem that 'make' > automatically splits on white space and there is no portable way to > make it not do that.
Hey Bob, After getting tired banging my head on the desk, I came to the same conclusion. Users will have to build from within a path without spaces. Since inevitably someone might try, do you recommend a recipe for checking at configure time so I can issue an AC_MSG_ERROR? -- Kip Warner -- Senior Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com
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