Re: Spaces in path names

[Edward Maros]

Roger While wrote:

> Actually on Cygwin (and MingW) this whole thing is caused
> by the following lines in ltmain.sh :
>
>       -L*)
>         dir=`$echo "X$arg" | $Xsed -e 's/^-L//'`
>         # We need an absolute path.
>         case $dir in
>         [\\/]* | [A-Za-z]:[\\/]*) ;;
>         *)
>           absdir=`cd "$dir" && pwd`

Have you tried:
absdir="`cd "$dir" && pwd`"

As this would be truer to the original intent.

> And there is the probem.
> Replacing that last line with a simple absdir="$dir"
> and, what do you know, everything works as it should.
> Of course, leaving as original, it is a heck of a problem
> trying to trace further usage of absdir and dir.
>
> THe question is, of course, what is the downside
> of this change (locally for our product).
>
> Roger
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Roger While wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Ralf,
> > > Well, how ARE you supposed to get around this ?
> > > Here's an excerpt :
> > > HOME is /cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Roger While
> > > build directory is $HOME/open-cobol-0.33
> >
> >
> > Due to the many layers of shell scripting in libtool, supporting 
> > spaces in filenames is complicated and must be proven for every case. 
> > It is a huge job.
> >
> > Since you are using Cygwin, you should be able to use Cygwin's 
> > 'mount' facility to map the problem path so that it appears as a path 
> > without spaces in the name.  Of course, this approach is not as user 
> > friendly as it could be and requires extra effort on the part of the 
> > person who builds the package.
> >
> > Bob
> > ======================================
> > Bob Friesenhahn
> > address@hidden, 
> > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
> > GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
>
>
>
>
>
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Ed

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