Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
The problem with fixing the quoting of $am_aux_dir is that I don't know
of a possible quoting that will work in all cases where the variable is
used (in a Makefile, in some shell scripts). It's really a mess.
The quoting I used was this:
test x"${MISSING+set}" = xset || MISSING="\${SHELL} \"$am_aux_dir\"/missing"
install_sh=${install_sh-"\$(SHELL) \"$am_aux_dir\"/install-sh"}
which seemed to work for me, though I guess I missed the quoting of
$ac_aux_dir on the previous line:
am_aux_dir=`cd $ac_aux_dir && pwd`
so maybe I wasn't getting the behavior I thought I was getting.
I'm curious which cases this quoting won't work.
but is a known problem with all released versions of
autotools, and is likely to be a problem with various packages even when
newer autotools are available. The workaround is to avoid directory names
with spaces.
Yes, the workaround is good.
I agree. Spaces in directory/file names are as evil as case-insensitive
file systems. I'd rather not have to explain this to users, however.
Paul
