Re: Autoconf Digest, Vol 129, Issue 1

2015-01-01 Thread David A. Wheeler
Bob Friesenhahn: It is a common problem for Windows users that their default directory (equivalent to a home directory) has spaces in it. In recent versions of Windows the home directory is often c:\Users (and thus has no space). But the directory that contains most programs has a space in its

Re: Mangled argument vector choking on spaces?

2015-01-01 Thread David A. Wheeler
Fotis Georgatos fo...@mail.cern.ch: As regards $subject, this so-called STRING_ENCODING_CHARMAP may be relevant: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/blob/master/easybuild/tools/filetools.py#L59 Look around line L1000 for the rational of that design and some pointers. Basically, ` `

Re: Autoconf Digest, Vol 129, Issue 1

2015-01-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 1 Jan 2015, David A. Wheeler wrote: Bob Friesenhahn: It is a common problem for Windows users that their default directory (equivalent to a home directory) has spaces in it. In recent versions of Windows the home directory is often c:\Users (and thus has no space). But the directory

Re: The results of your email commands

2015-01-01 Thread David A. Wheeler
It is a common problem for Windows users that their default directory (equivalent to a home directory) has spaces in it. In recent versions of Windows the home directory is often C:\Users (and thus has no spaces). But the typical directory that contains most programs has a space in its

Re: Mangled argument vector choking on spaces?

2015-01-01 Thread Kip Warner
On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 12:02 -0500, David A. Wheeler wrote: They can do workarounds with symlinks, etc., to try to *hide* the reality, but since autoconf is supposed to do things *automatically*, that means that autoconf fails to do the one job it's supposed to do: automatic configuration.