>> This seems to be a limitation of the venerable mkinstalldirs program.
>> I wonder how other projects handle this problem?
> We could replace the mkinstalldirs in Emacs with one from a recent
> automake, which seems to have addressed this issue. But I think that
> trying to use paths with spaces will still not work, because there are
> many many places in the Emacs Makefile where paths are used without
> quoting. So paths with spaces will be split by the build process
> before even being passed to mkinstalldirs.
That should be fixed as well. Maybe not right now (i.e. can wait after
Emacs-22, since those bugs have been with us for ever), but these are bugs.
Stefan
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