FTB if path to build dir contains a space

[Alexander Batischev]

Hi!

I co-maintain Rust bindings for GNU gettext[1]. As conventional among 
Rust libraries (so-called "crates"), we also provide a crate that 
bundles GNU gettext and builds it if the user hasn't already installed 
it by some other means. A while ago, we got a bug report[2] which states 
that GNU gettext fails to build if the path to the build directory 
contains a space character.

1. https://crates.io/crates/gettext-rs
2. https://github.com/Koka/gettext-rs/issues/9 

I just reproduced this on Debian testing with GNU gettext 0.21, outside 
of our crate and Rust. Arguments to ./configure were:

    --without-emacs --disable-java --disable-csharp --disable-c++ 
    --disable-shared --enable-static --enable-fast-install 
    --with-included-gettext --with-included-glib 
    --with-included-libcroco --with-included-libunistring

Is this indeed a limitation in autotools, like the bug report states? 
Can this be worked around somehow by you, or should I move the build to 
something like /tmp?

(Please CC me in replies, as I'm not subscribed to the list.)

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Regards,
Alexander Batischev

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