Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-25 Thread Sverre Johan Tøvik
At 11:40 +0200 25-04-02, Martin Costabel wrote: > Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote: > >> Yeah, I know. But the thing is, this isn't really a *nix limitation - >> it's a "limitation" of script writers (no offense :). > > As an example what you would be up against: Run "grep absdir > /usr/bin/glibtool"

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-25 Thread Sverre Johan Tøvik
At 10:32 +0200 25-04-02, Martin Costabel wrote: > > Nah. I'd rather plow through all the scripts myself and fix 'em one >> at a time... > > The point is that you are not done when you "fixed" all the Fink > scripts. You would also have to "fix" most of the configure scripts and > Makefiles i

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote: > Yeah, I know. But the thing is, this isn't really a *nix limitation - > it's a "limitation" of script writers (no offense :). As an example what you would be up against: Run "grep absdir /usr/bin/glibtool". Yes, right, this is *the* GNU libtool, and you really don't w

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote: > > At 15:59 -0400 24-04-02, Chris Devers wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote: > > > > > Any other ideas? > > > > Reconsider? > > Nah. I'd rather plow through all the scripts myself and fix 'em one > at a time... The point is that you are not d

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-25 Thread Sverre Johan Tøvik
At 16:36 -0400 24-04-02, Erik Price wrote: > On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 03:37 PM, Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote: > >> I've thought about it, but I've decied to take the "No dammit, >> this is a Mac!" stance. ;-) > > But that's just the thing -- not only is it not a Mac anymore > (c'mon admit

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-25 Thread Sverre Johan Tøvik
At 15:59 -0400 24-04-02, Chris Devers wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote: > > > Any other ideas? > > Reconsider? Nah. I'd rather plow through all the scripts myself and fix 'em one at a time... > It really is *much* easier to break things when important filesystem > pat

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-24 Thread Max Horn
At 14:18 Uhr -0700 24.04.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >At 9:37 PM +0200 4/24/02, Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote: >>At 13:30 -0400 24-04-02, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>> How about renaming your partition to "The_World_Is_Not_Enough" ? >> >>I've thought about it, but I've decied to take the "No dammit, this >>i

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-24 Thread Koen van der Drift
At 01:30 PM 4/24/2002 -0400, Alexander Hansen wrote: >How about renaming your partition to "The_World_Is_Not_Enough" ? Can't you do that with backslashes: "The\ World\ Is\ Not\ Enough" I need to do that sometimes with cd and it works fine. - Koen. __

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-24 Thread Ben Hines
At 9:37 PM +0200 4/24/02, Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote: >At 13:30 -0400 24-04-02, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> How about renaming your partition to "The_World_Is_Not_Enough" ? > >I've thought about it, but I've decied to take the "No dammit, this >is a Mac!" stance. ;-) > >Any other ideas? Fink shoul

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-24 Thread Erik Price
On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 03:37 PM, Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote: > I've thought about it, but I've decied to take the "No dammit, this is > a Mac!" stance. ;-) But that's just the thing -- not only is it not a Mac anymore (c'mon admit it), you're not even trying to do traditional Mac thi

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-24 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Sverre Johan Tøvik wrote: > At 13:30 -0400 24-04-02, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > How about renaming your partition to "The_World_Is_Not_Enough" ? > > I've thought about it, but I've decied to take the "No dammit, this > is a Mac!" stance. ;-) > > Any other ideas? Reconsider

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-24 Thread Sverre Johan Tøvik
At 13:30 -0400 24-04-02, Alexander Hansen wrote: > How about renaming your partition to "The_World_Is_Not_Enough" ? I've thought about it, but I've decied to take the "No dammit, this is a Mac!" stance. ;-) Any other ideas? Sverre > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Associate Research Sc

Re: [Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
How about renaming your partition to "The_World_Is_Not_Enough" ? -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818Fax:208-988-

[Fink-users] /sw as symlink to path containing spaces

2002-04-24 Thread Sverre Johan Tøvik
Hi, When I recently got a new hard drive, I partitioned it so that I could keep everything that doesn't come with the system separate from the boot partition. In accordance with this, I've been trying to install fink with /sw being a symlink to a directory on another partition. The problem is