Are these problems *caused* at configure time, make/compile time, or
run time?  When are these problems *detected* (e.g. configure time bug
that only appears at run time)?

Michael D. Adams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

On 3/18/06, Eric Vought <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I mentioned to Jorrit recently, that space requirements (among other things)
> have torpedoed my CS work for a bit. I have an external drive now, and a
> problem: I cannot get CS or components to build on a volume with spaces
> anywhere in the path. Building on my  external drive, pretty inevitably will
> lead to a space in the path. This is required by other needs and is not, at
> the moment, changeable. Putting a symlink off of a path without a space in
> its tree does not help. CS figures out its canonical path and bombs. I have
> basically turned my ~/Projects/CRYSTAL tree into a symlink to another
> volume.
>
> The symptoms can get exciting since CS starts splitting paths into multiple
> components and quickly eats itself. Occasionally, it tries creating
> semi-random directories and sometimes succeeds. The big problem is M4
> processing. No matter how I pad the options to Configure, (e.g.:
> "/Volumes/Path With Space/Crystal", '\"\"Path With Space\"\"', etc., the
> paths are evaluated enough times that somewhere it will choke. I also cannot
> do much with paths M4 generates off of generated canonical pathnames.
>
> I have tried editing the macros to fix this problem. After 150+ edits, I am
> getting nowhere, and some edits have proved mutually exclusive.
>
> Anybody have an idea? The only other solution is to go through and edit a
> whole bunch of other things which depend on the naming of this volume
> (including a bajillion symlinks and some local subversion junk). I may just
> start on this. In practice, many systems nowadays have paths with spaces.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Eric Vought
>
> "Faith does not absolve us from trying to understand our world and make
> moral distinctions with the eyes and brain given us. Religion is as much
> responsibility as direction: Duty not Distinction."
>
>
>


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