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Re: autoconf doesn't support spaces in directory names
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: autoconf doesn't support spaces in directory names |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:19:54 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
* Eric Blake wrote on Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:48:27PM CET:
> According to Paul Brannan on 1/20/2008 7:18 AM:
> | I'm using autoconf 2.61 on cygwin where my home directory is "/home/Paul
> | Brannan".
>
> Thanks for the report. This has already been fixed in autoconf and
> automake CVS,
Not really. The particular issue Paul reported is one I did not fix yet.
It can be worked around with
PATH=$PATH:$source_tree/build-aux
MISSING=missing
install_sh=install-sh
export PATH MISSING install_sh
$source_tree/configure [...]
The problem with fixing the quoting of $am_aux_dir is that I don't know
of a possible quoting that will work in all cases where the variable is
used (in a Makefile, in some shell scripts). It's really a mess.
> but is a known problem with all released versions of
> autotools, and is likely to be a problem with various packages even when
> newer autotools are available. The workaround is to avoid directory names
> with spaces.
Yes, the workaround is good.
Cheers,
Ralf