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Re: installing on Cygwin
From: |
Richard Frith-Macdonald |
Subject: |
Re: installing on Cygwin |
Date: |
Fri, 6 May 2011 08:26:35 +0100 |
On 5 May 2011, at 18:56, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried installing on cygwin. After successfully configuring make, I get the
> following error:
>
> Riccardo address@hidden /home/multix/modules/core/make
> $ make install
> make: *** /home/Riccardo: Is a directory. Stop.
>
> I configured with the following options
>
> $ ./configure --with-layout=gnustep --prefix=/
>
> The windows user name uses the name+surname apparently. I built in a
> directory without spaces an install into /, however probably the script is
> trying to create /home/Riccardo Mottola without proper quoting or escaping.
>
> I don't believe this is a specific cygwin problem, it is just that under
> windows usernames with spaces are more common.
Usernames with spaces are illegal on most (all?) unix based systems... so that
would make them a lot ore common on windows :-)
You need to set up your environment so that your home directory doesn't contain
spaces.
The alternative is to go through gnustep-make rewriting everything to handle
paths/filenames with spaces, and possibly then go through all makefiles
everywhere doing the same.