>>>>> maechler writes:
>>>>> "williams" == williams elliot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Thu, 8 Jul 2004 01:50:16 +0200 (CEST) writes:
williams> Full_Name: Elliot Williams Version: 1.9.1 OS:
williams> Linux Submission from: (NULL) (146.142.53.18)
williams> Hi,
williams> The usual configure/make procedure hangs when
williams> there is a space in the pathname.
williams> For instance, I had R in "/home/elliot/R
williams> Software/R-1.9.1/" and make complained that it
williams> couldn't find "Software/R-1.9.1/". Changing the
williams> directory to R_Software resolved the problem.
williams> This is a small problem, but it might bite new
williams> linux users who like to use spaces in directory
williams> names and don't know that it can cause troubles.
> Hmm, I think these new users should rather learn that it
> probably *will* cause much too much trouble and stop using
> spaces in file names.... {well, I can hear some people scream,
> but that's my humble opinion}.
williams> Note that this is similar to a bug about commas in
williams> filepaths, number 5536. I do not, however, expect
williams> the earth. :-)
> I'm waiting for others to comment, but I wouldn't consider this a
> bug. Just don't use "crazy" directory names ("," or non-ASCII
> accents..) since this will bite you eventually anyway (i.e. not only
> with R), e.g. using an accented char, or Umlaut and moving your
> directory tree to a locale where these characters are not valid or at
> least not displayed usually.
Formally, we could claim it is not a bug if it was clearly stated in
some place (R-admin?) to be the "official" behavior.
I had a brief look: the first problem is
$(MAKE) rhome=`cd $(top_builddir); pwd` install-bin
and it should not be too hard to change this to something like
$(MAKE) rhome="`cd \"$(top_builddir)\"; pwd`" install-bin
(or start propagating abs_top_builddir which I think Autoconf would have
given us for a few years now).
I think R mostly runs even if R_HOME has a path with spaces, so why
shouldn't we be able to build in a dir whose path has spaces?
Of course, using double quotes in file paths is another story ...
-k
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