Hi Victor, 
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 16:17:34 -0400, Victor Eijkhout wrote:
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking for powerpc-apple-darwin6.6-windres... no
> checking for windres... windres
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> updating cache ./config.cache
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> Configuring in libiberty
> /Volumes/TiBook: /Volumes/TiBook: No such file or directory
> make: *** [configure-libiberty] Error 1
> 
> The problem here is that that directory is "/Volumes/TiBook\ 
> Hard\ Drive". In other words, some configure script should double 
> quote the environment variable $HOME.
> 
> Is this a problem for the fvwm2 maintainer?

First of all sorry that I am not the maintainer but this is a 
gerneral error that affects all maintainers since it is not common 
in unixlike Operatingsystems to use spaces in pathnames since this 
is in relation is a new feature and I can remember that my first 
expierence with spaces in filenames was with a Windwos 98 Machine 
up to this time spaces where quite uncommen in my Atari and DOS 
World, in facht files crashed or didn't get save when there were 
spaces in the name or in the path. Don't know how it was with 
Classic OSes or other unixlike Operatingsystems. 

So in order to have a smooth running Mac OS X you should avoid 
using spaces in pathnames. I also had to remember about this as 
well but now I am used to it and even under Windows it is now quite 
more easy to navigate via commandline when you have _ or - in path 
and file name instead of a blank space mark.

Eric Hoch



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