Re: autoconf doesn't support spaces in directory names

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:48:27PM CET:
> According to Paul Brannan on 1/20/2008 7:18 AM:
> | I'm using autoconf 2.61 on cygwin where my home directory is "/home/Paul
> | Brannan".
> 
> Thanks for the report.  This has already been fixed in autoconf and
> automake CVS,

Not really.  The particular issue Paul reported is one I did not fix yet.
It can be worked around with
  PATH=$PATH:$source_tree/build-aux
  MISSING=missing
  install_sh=install-sh
  export PATH MISSING install_sh
  $source_tree/configure [...]


The problem with fixing the quoting of $am_aux_dir is that I don't know
of a possible quoting that will work in all cases where the variable is
used (in a Makefile, in some shell scripts).  It's really a mess.

> but is a known problem with all released versions of
> autotools, and is likely to be a problem with various packages even when
> newer autotools are available.  The workaround is to avoid directory names
> with spaces.

Yes, the workaround is good.

Cheers,
Ralf