Re: Mac OS X: configure script errors

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Peter,

* Peter Schoenrank wrote on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:32:23PM CET:
> When trying to build sane-backends in Mac OS X on an Intel iMac, I ran  
> into a problem (see below). It appears that the configure script does  
> not cope with spaces in the name of a directory in the path to the  
> directory in which it resides.

Yep.  We have worked some way to let the next Autoconf and Automake
versions (which will be 2.64 and 1.11, respectively) have less problems
in this regard.  That will suffice to build several packages
successfully in directories with spaces.  However, it won't be a
panacea, in that many package configure.ac scripts have problems with
those spaces, too, and what's most important: Libtool hasn't been fixed
in this regard.

This trouble really roots in the way the Bourne shell works, namely by
using white space as argument delimiter, and how awkward it is to write
shell scripts that cope with this.  Sorry you had to learn the hard way.

Cheers,
Ralf