Re: allow spaces in build tree path

[Jim Meyering]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Jim Meyering wrote on Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 07:43:12PM CEST:
>> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > If there is interest, I can try to prepare a similar patch for spaces in
>> > the absolute source tree path; as long as $srcdir does not contain them,
>> > that should still work in coreutils, I think.
>>
>> Sure.
>
> Oh well.  I forgot that Automake doesn't cope with it too well:
> am_aux_dir is computed as absolute path, and thus references to scripts
> like `missing' and `install-sh' break.  So, for coreutils the pain
> enduring user trying to make do with a source path with spaces may need
> to set $MISSING and $install_sh to point to some scripts (either
> reachable in $PATH (e.g. by putting the build-aux dir in the PATH), or
> with an absolute name not containing spaces), and must use a compiler
> that understands `-c -o'.  And the patch below.

Thanks!  Applied.

> 2006-10-22  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>
>
>       * tests/chmod/c-option: Double-quote instances of `$abs_srcdir'.
>       * tests/cp/cp-parents: Likewise.
>       * tests/mkdir/parents: Likewise.
>       * tests/mkdir/perm: Likewise.