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Re: Problems with building [gdb 6.0]

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il>
To: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, rolandz at poczta dot fm
Date: 11 Feb 2004 07:51:51 +0200
Subject: Re: Problems with building [gdb 6.0]
References: <000b01c3efba$8b7ac420$f9b7573e@DOM> <20040211051509.GA22903@nevyn.them.org> <20040211052236.GA9887@redhat.com>
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at elta dot co dot il>

> 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?

References:
- Problems with building [gdb 6.0]
  - From: Roland Zerek
- Re: Problems with building [gdb 6.0]
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: Problems with building [gdb 6.0]
  - From: Christopher Faylor

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