Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Pursuant to Theodore Petrosky's recent trouble report, I thought I > > would see what happens if you try to build Postgres in a directory > > whose path contains spaces, > > The last I heard in the autotools community on this issue was "forget > it". Not that that means it's impossible, but you're going to fight a > hard battle with make, which has no quoting mechanism at all. > > > or if the install prefix contains spaces. > > This should be achievable, with a few thousand quotes in the right > places.
Interesting. TODO updated: * Allow building with directories containing spaces There are two capabilities here, first the ability to build from a source directory that contains spaces, and second the ability to install into a directory that contains spaces. The first is probably not possible because 'gmake' and other compiler tools do not fully support spaces in path names. The second is possible with proper quoting in the makefiles. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it is possible to install into a directory that doesn't contain spaces and then copy the install to a directory with spaces. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
