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Re: Cygwin's libtool problem with directory that contains white spaces
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:06:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: Cygwin's libtool problem with directory that contains white spaces
- References: <423F04E2.7090703@rrette.com>
Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre wrote:
I'm experiencing problems with libtool 1.5.10 on Cygwin. I'm trying to
compile a project in:
/home/Jean-Philippe\ Barret/project/curlpp
In the 'examples' subdirectory, this problem occurs:
[snip]
you can see that this is not correct. It didn't expanded the
"-L/home/Jean-Philippe Barret/curlpp/curlpp"
("-L../curlpp" on the libtool call) correctly. We should have this line
instead:
+ deplibs=-L/home/Jean-Philippe Barret/curlpp/curlpp
So, it seems that it doesn't handle correctly a directory with white
spaces. I tried with a directory without any whitespace, and it worked
perfectly.
Yep. Cygwin's libtool, which is almost unchanged from the official
1.5.10 -- does not support pathnames with spaces in them. I would ask
for patches, but things seem to be gearing up for the long-heralded
libtool-2.0 release and it may (or may not?) have fixed problems of this
sort.
Unfortunately, all I can recommend at this time is "don't do that."
Maybe unpack and build in /tmp/curlpp instead of in your $HOME.
--
Chuck
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