Daniel Herring <dherr...@tentpost.com> writes: > 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.
In any case, it would be quite interesting to test all the scripts and programs in a unix installation to have some statistics on how they deal with spaces in paths. But if autoconf still tries to avoid them, my bet is that quite a proportion of essential tools still don't deal with them nicely. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
