Given that the configure problem I encountered is with Autotools (see below) rather than with sane-backends, perhaps someone could add a note to the README.darwin to warn other novices?
Peter On 09-Mar-24, at 23:34, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Yep. We have worked some way to let the next Autoconf and Automake > versions (which will be 2.64 and 1.11, respectively) have less > problems > in this regard. That will suffice to build several packages > successfully in directories with spaces. However, it won't be a > panacea, in that many package configure.ac scripts have problems with > those spaces, too, and what's most important: Libtool hasn't been > fixed > in this regard. > > This trouble really roots in the way the Bourne shell works, namely by > using white space as argument delimiter, and how awkward it is to > write > shell scripts that cope with this. Sorry you had to learn the hard > way. > > Cheers, > Ralf * Peter Schoenrank wrote to bug-autoconf at gnu.org on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:32:23PM CET: > When trying to build sane-backends in Mac OS X on an Intel iMac, I ran > into a problem (see below). It appears that the configure script does > not cope with spaces in the name of a directory in the path to the > directory in which it resides. ----- Peter Schoenrank mailto: peter at schoenrank.ca phone: 250-655-6753
