Patrice Dumas a dit : >> > What is the issue with space in the build path ?? >> path are not between quotes so that commands that copy from directory >> to another do not work correctly. >> cp /home/baud123/directory with spaces/file $DESTINATION >> does not work, when cp "/home/baud123/directory with spaces/file" >> $DESTINATION would work... > > Indeed, but where are such cp needed? There shouldn't be a need for an > absolute path to source dir, all the paths should be relative. hum, this came from this post (in French) http://forum.eagle-usb.org/viewtopic.php?t=2514
which showed this error : make -C driver && \ make -C pppoa && \ make -C utils/scripts make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Nouveau dossier/eagle-usb-1.9.8/driver' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.104-default/build SUBDIRS=/root/Nouveau dossier/eagle-usb-1.9.8/driver modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.104-obj/i386/default' make -C ../../../linux-2.6.5-7.104 O=../linux-2.6.5-7.104-obj/i386/default dossier/eagle-usb-1.9.8/driver make[4]: *** No rule to make target `dossier/eagle-usb-1.9.8/driver'. Stop. make[3]: *** [dossier/eagle-usb-1.9.8/driver] Error 2 make[2]: *** [dossier/eagle-usb-1.9.8/driver] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.104-obj/i386/default' make[1]: *** [eagle-usb.ko] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Nouveau dossier/eagle-usb-1.9.8/driver' make: *** [build] Error 2 That could be corrected. Though I maintain my position that it's *bad* to have spaces in pathnames : hence the message to warn and make the user get good habits. @++ Ben'. aka baud123
