[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59923] mkoctfile fails on Windows if installed in a path with spaces on a file system without short file names

[Markus Mützel]

Update of bug #59923 (project octave):

                  Status:               Need Info => Confirmed              
                 Release:                   6.1.0 => dev                    
                 Summary: mkoctfile helloworld.cc fails in 6.1.0 but is fine
in 5.1.0 => mkoctfile fails on Windows if installed in a path with spaces on a
file system without short file names

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Follow-up Comment #9:

Ok. So the file system on your drive D: doesn't store short file names.

Installing Octave at the default destination in C: would probably work for
you.
If you chose to install on D: (or any other file system that doesn't store
short file names), you should select a destination folder that doesn't contain
spaces as a work-around.

The real fix would be to *not* rely on short file names at all and correctly
quote paths that might contain spaces where they are used in Octave.
This is a larger project and probably too much for a dot release.

As a first step, we should remove the conversion to short paths in the start
up script imho because that masks potential issues on developer and tester
machines (where conversion to short file names *does* work apparently).
But we should wait with that until after Octave 6.2.

In the mean time, users on affected machines should chose an installation
folder that doesn't contain spaces.

Re-targeting to the development branch.

I believe there is a similar open bug report somewhere...


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