Re: Make install cannot handle directory names with a SPC in it

[Glenn Morris]

Chong Yidong wrote:

> This seems to be a limitation of the venerable mkinstalldirs program.
>
> I wonder how other projects handle this problem?

We could replace the mkinstalldirs in Emacs with one from a recent
automake, which seems to have addressed this issue. But I think that
trying to use paths with spaces will still not work, because there are
many many places in the Emacs Makefile where paths are used without
quoting. So paths with spaces will be split by the build process
before even being passed to mkinstalldirs.