Re: [HACKERS] TODO item: make world safe for spaces in build/install paths

2005-01-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
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

[HACKERS] TODO item: make world safe for spaces in build/install paths

2004-12-30 Thread Tom Lane
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, or if the install prefix contains spaces. It doesn't work, not even close. It looks to me like there are a couple of hundred places in