Re: [Ecls-list] Help needed: autoconf with spaces in names

2010-10-12 Thread James Amundson
On 10/08/2010 07:36 PM, Daniel Herring wrote: 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. You might find it

Re: [Ecls-list] Help needed: autoconf with spaces in names

2010-10-09 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
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\

Re: [Ecls-list] Help needed: autoconf with spaces in names

2010-10-08 Thread Daniel Herring
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

Re: [Ecls-list] Help needed: autoconf with spaces in names

2010-10-03 Thread Michael Wood
On 3 October 2010 22:41, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Samium Gromoff _deepf...@feelingofgreen.ru wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:16:21 +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com wrote: It seems

Re: [Ecls-list] Help needed: autoconf with spaces in names

2010-10-03 Thread Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Michael Wood esiot...@gmail.com wrote: I've just tried with curl, since I have the sources on my machine and it uses autoconf. I copied it to '/tmp/some where' and then ran './configure --prefix=/tmp/some path'. The configure step worked without complaint

Re: [Ecls-list] Help needed: autoconf with spaces in names

2010-10-03 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com writes: It seems that configure does not work when one of the directories contains a space in the name. Is this a known limitation? Allowing spaces in pathnames would require an effort superior to that of the correction of the Y2K

Re: [Ecls-list] Help needed: autoconf with spaces in names

2010-10-03 Thread Matthew Mondor
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 01:52:45 +0200 p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com writes: It seems that configure does not work when one of the directories contains a space in the name. Is this a known limitation?

Re: [Ecls-list] Help needed: autoconf with spaces in names

2010-10-03 Thread Matthew Mondor
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 20:22:13 -0400 Matthew Mondor mm_li...@pulsar-zone.net wrote: use the special option a processing command might support, such as -X option to grep for piping through xargs, etc. Err, I meant -print0 option to find, perl -0, sort -z, grep -Z etc. -- Matt

Re: [Ecls-list] Help needed: autoconf with spaces in names

2010-10-03 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com wrote: It seems that configure does not work when one of the directories contains a space in the name. Is this a known limitation? Juanjo Hmm, I don't understand what you mean... But, I usually invoke