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pending/1550: Re: Problems with building [gdb 6.0]
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
- To: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 11 Feb 2004 07:51:51 +0200
- Subject: pending/1550: Re: Problems with building [gdb 6.0]
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
>Number: 1550
>Category: pending
>Synopsis: Re: Problems with building [gdb 6.0]
>Confidential: yes
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 11 14:38:01 UTC 2004
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> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:22:36 -0500
> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
> >
> >Try building in a directory with no spaces in the pathname. I don't
> >konw if that's supposed to work, but judging from the error messages,
> >it looks like it doesn't.
>
> It should work but it is a frequent cause for complaint on cygwin, not
> for anything to do with cygwin, but because most people on UNIX don't use
> directories with spaces and so there are unknown assumptions in the build
> process. Of course, Windows loves to use directories with spaces in them.
How about adding some blurb along these lines to INSTALL?
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