Re: Whitespace in `${srcdir}' during `configure'

[Paul Eggert]

It'd be nice if Emacs 'configure' allowed arbitrary source-directory names. 
Unfortunately, almost none of the changes in the patch that you sent fix any 
bugs, and almost all the bugs in this area would remain unfixed by the patch. 
If you'd like to help fix the many problems in this area, I suggest building and 
configuring Emacs in a directory whose name contains spaces, tabs, and 
characters from the set !"#$%&'()*+,-.:;<=>address@hidden|}~ and make sure that 
everything works; also, make sure that every change in the patch actually fixes 
a bug.  It could be that we can support some characters (e.g, spaces) but not 
others (e.g., apostrophes, colons), but in any event the more characters that we 
can support the better, and it'd be good to document the ones we can't.