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Re: pathnames containing spaces
From: |
James Amundson |
Subject: |
Re: pathnames containing spaces |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:41:47 -0600 |
On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 17:07, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> In fact there is two different problems. One is that we cannot
> support spaces in source filenames.
Right. I wasn't even thinking about that, but I definitely see your
point. I don't suppose colons in source filename would be work very
well, either.
> (Incidentally this will also break builds if
> the package has been unpacked in a directory with a space, and
> $(srcdir) is absolute.)
Is there any check for that? It might save someone confusion at some
point.
> Your problem is different. You want spaces in installation
> paths.
Yes. That's really what I had in mind.
> Those paths do not appear as target or dependencies in
> Makefiles so there is no insurmountable obstacle. As you say
> it's a simple matter of quoting. Well sort of... The appended
> patch is the start of a fix for this.
Excellent! Thank you very much.
Best,
Jim Amundson
Re: pathnames containing spaces, Russ Allbery, 2004/01/27