Re: pathnames containing spaces

[Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

The usual response to this problem is 
_don't_use_path_names_with_spaces_.  There are different ways to modify 
what you are doing that it is not worth modifying the autotools to 
handle the space in path name problem.  For instance you could use the 
DOS 8.3 modified name which for ``Program Files'' is usually 
``Progra~1''.  Or you with Cygwin and MSYS you create a mount point and 
map ``C:\Program Files'' to it, e.g. ``echo "c:/progra~1 /opt" >> 
/etc/fstab''; then ``./configure --prefix=/opt''.

Earnie

James Amundson wrote:
> As far as I can tell, it is impossible to get automake to work with
> pathnames containing spaces. The canonical example is
> 	./configure --prefix="/c/Program Files"
> 	make install
> which will cause make to choke because install will be called with
> unquoted pathnames. I don't know if there are other examples -- I have
> never made it past this one.
>
> Have I missed something, or is this a bug? It is a serious problem when
> using MSYS or Cygwin.
>
> --Jim Amundson

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