http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12110
Summary: Spaces in pathname breaks compilation
Product: binutils
Version: unspecified
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: binutils
AssignedTo: unassig...@sources.redhat.com
ReportedBy: br...@brush.co.nz
This is a bug report from mspgcc4. The developer told me it was a binutils
issue, so I should report it here.
When trying to compile on my machine, I put the mspgcc4 source code into a
folder which has a space in one of the parent paths. It bombs out with a
difficult-to-interpret message (further below). After thinking about it, it
became clear what the problem was, but this message was hidden amongst many
other resulting errors, so it took a while to find out why it was having
problems.
At the very least, it should fail gracefully with a clear error message, like
"Cannot compile in a directory containing spaces in the pathname".
However, it should really compile without any issues. Spaces in the pathname
shouldn't be a problem in modern operating systems, and errors like these point
to a need for better escaping in certain shell commands.
# patching file opcodes/msp430-dis.c
# /home/Documents/Learning
Projects/msp430/mspgcc4-20101006/build/binutils-2.20.1-build/../binutils-2.20.1/configure:
line 1343: cd: /home/Documents/Learning: No such file or directory
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