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Re: Makefile for emacs throws an error when username contains spaces
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:10:20 -0400
- Subject: Re: Makefile for emacs throws an error when username contains spaces
- References: <announce dot 520D42A3 dot 4010401 at cornell dot edu> <52127304 dot 8080806 at codespunk dot com>
On 8/19/2013 3:33 PM, Matt D. wrote:
I experienced the following error while running "make install" for
cygwin emacs:
chown: invalid user: `Matthew'
I corrected the problem by encapsulating the following variables in
quotes within Makefile and Makefile.in:
$${USERNAME}
$${USER}
$${installuser}
This is not Cygwin specific. It would apply to any system that allows
user names to contain spaces. (But I don't know offhand if there are
any systems other than Windows and Cygwin that allow this.) You should
send this report to emacs-devel or, better, report it as an emacs bug
(send mail to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org).
Ken
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