Re: pathnames containing spaces

[Earnie Boyd]

James Amundson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 06:21, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> > The usual response to this problem is 
> > _don't_use_path_names_with_spaces_. 
>
>
> Heh heh.
>
>
> > There are different ways to modify 
> > what you are doing that it is not worth modifying the autotools to 
> > handle the space in path name problem.
>
>
> Wait a minute... You were joking, right? An important piece of
> infrastructure like automake shouldn't have amateurish mistakes like
> forgetting to properly quote pathnames in scripts and makefiles.
>
> Surely the automake maintainers realize that this is a bug, don't they?

No, it is not an automake or autoconf bug.  Autoconf and Automake are 
about portability and spaces in path names are not portable.


> >  For instance you could use the 
> > DOS 8.3 modified name which for ``Program Files'' is usually 
> > ``Progra~1''.  Or you with Cygwin and MSYS you create a mount point and 
> > map ``C:\Program Files'' to it, e.g. ``echo "c:/progra~1 /opt" >> 
> > /etc/fstab''; then ``./configure --prefix=/opt''.
>
>
> Thanks for the workarounds. Obviously, the mount point business won't
> work for programs running outside of MSYS (or Cygwin). None of them will
> work on non-windows platforms.

You are complaining about automake which itself will not execute outside 
of Cygwin or MSYS or someother posix compatiblity layer.

Earnie.

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