I (finally) installed this patch to quit early if the perl path has spaces. Thanks.
As for MKDIR_P and INSTALL, I guess it is somewhere in the prerequisite/autoconf stuff. I suppose it would be rare that they would be found in a path with spaces while perl was not, so I think it's ok to let that go. --best, karl. --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ AC_PATH_PROG([PERL], [perl]) if test -z "$PERL"; then AC_MSG_ERROR([perl not found]) fi +if test x"`echo $PERL | grep ' '`" != "x"; then + AC_MSG_ERROR([The path to your Perl contains spaces. +This would cause build failures later or unusable programs. +Please use a path without spaces and try again.]) +fi + # Save details about the selected perl interpreter in config.log. AM_RUN_LOG([$PERL --version]) $PERL -e 'require 5.006;' || {