Re: mkinstalldirs: directory names with embedded whitespace or newlines

2005-06-01 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Tim Van Holder wrote on Tue, May 31, 2005 at 08:31:25AM CEST: > Noah Friedman wrote: > > +for arg > > +do > > + qdir= dir= qsub= sub=// # "//" can't appear normally `//' is special when at the beginning of a path name under win32. (Tim probably also hinted at this, but it may be useful to

Re: mkinstalldirs: directory names with embedded whitespace or newlines

2005-06-01 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Noah" == Noah Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Noah> I received a bug report about a KDE application that was Noah> using an old version of mkinstalldirs and failed when one Noah> of the directories had an embedded space in the name. Noah> The following attachment is a diff against th

Re: mkinstalldirs: directory names with embedded whitespace or newlines

2005-06-01 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tim> Don't forget about DOS-style paths - backslashes instead of Tim> slashes, drive specs, etc. This part of mkinstalldirs is used only when GNU mkdir is not installed, and has never worked with DOS paths. Can't we assume GNU mkdir on