On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote: > It seems that "configure" does not work when one of the directories contains > a space in the name. Is this a known limitation?
Here's output from a recent GNU package's configure script. # ../a\ space/libtool-2.4/configure ../a space/libtool-2.4/configure: line 2668: ../a: No such file or directory ## ----------------------- ## ## Configuring libtool 2.4 ## ## ----------------------- ## checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: unsafe srcdir value: `../a space/libtool-2.4' # echo $? 1 # head ../a\ space/libtool-2.4/configure #! /bin/sh # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles. # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.67 for GNU Libtool 2.4. # # Report bugs to <bug-libt...@gnu.org>. # # # Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, # 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software # Foundation, Inc. So it appears that spaces in directory names are strongly discouraged. An authoritative answer would have to come from the autoconf list. Its possible this changed in the recently released autoconf 2.68, but I doubt it. - Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
