Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 11:24 AM, Helge Hess wrote:

> Hi,
>
> since apparently there is no solution (make bug ;-), I vote for a small
> addition to common.make which checks the pathes for spaces and exits
> make with an error message if it finds some.
> BTW: All pathes should be checked, since there is some potential that
> users even move GNUSTEP_ROOT to some weird location by "accident" ...
>
> The Windows user then has two options:
> a) moving is home (yes, this is possible in Win as well ;-)

How do you do that in XP?  Hack the registry?

> b) use --with-user-root to move stuff to a different location (eg
> /GNUstep/Users/donald).

> We could also make b) the default for Windows ? (GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT isn't
> in HOME, but rather in a subdir of GNUstep ...) Defaults should
> autocreate the /Users/$USER dir on access.

Yes ... but we'd need to strip any spaces from $USER first of course, 
since
windows usernames are sometimes things like a persons full name.