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Re: make dist fails for directories with spaces in their name


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: make dist fails for directories with spaces in their name
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:13:28 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Hello Paul,

* Paul Brannan wrote on Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:24:20PM CET:
> I'm using automake 1.10 on cygwin where my home directory is "/home/Paul 
> Brannan".  I have a project located in my home directory which uses 
> automake.

Building in a directory with spaces is not supported.  That said, in the
current git master version (what will eventually be 1.11, not 1.10.1),
I fixed most but not all issued with spaces in the build directory name.

> Two changes are necessary to fix the problem:
> 
> - $distdir must be quoted whenever it is used
> - The $(MKDIR_P) line in the distdir rule that creates the dist 
> directory must be quoted as well.

These have been fixed.

Cheers,
Ralf




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