Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:39:05PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > > Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > And make can't cope with the :'s in the directory. > > > > That's probably a know limitation in make, colon being a special > > character and all ... I don't think you can quote it, and that may be > > a genuine make bug. File it if you wish. > > Oh my, that really sucks.
BTW, there are some more characters that don't work well with a traditional autoconf project. I had reports of building problems from a person who had downloaded lsh source from http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/lsh. It turned out that the problem was that wget against that URL resulted in directory names like "somewhere/%7Enisse/lsh". And you can't have % in $srcdir, because that results in configure-generated sed rules like [EMAIL PROTECTED]@%somewhere/%7Enisse/lsh% ^ ^ ^ ^ Ouch. I guess a lot of projects would break with names including spaces as well. Regards, /Niels
