"Ron Blaschke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Nikolay Ananiev (via RT) wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by "Nikolay Ananiev" > > # Please include the string: [perl #40998] > > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40998 > > > > When build_dir contains spaces the build process fails. > > The fix is to translate build_dir to a short path name. > > In my opinion it would be better to escape/quote the relevant paths > properly. I think the short file names were introduced for backwards > compatibility, as a kludge. Besides, they are ugly to read. ;-) > > Ron >
If we use quotes, we'll have to refactor some of the scripts in the build tree, because there are many concatenations and currently they won't work if we use quotes on build_dir. There's one more way. We can check build_dir and use short path names only if there are spaces.
