[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59412] [octave forge] (ocl) Compile package errors with spaces in path

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #59412 (project octave):

I'm pretty sure this is due to spaces in the path that don't disappear by
converting to short file names.
The attached patch should be fixing at least one place where we'd probably
need to quote the path.

Imho, we shouldn't try to hide issues by using short file names at all. Those
aren't guaranteed to exist (at least on the most common file systems, i.e.
NTFS).
The commands that create short file names are in MXE Octave IIRC. It is too
late for Octave 6. But we should probably remove those commands shortly after
the release. Converting to short file names hides issues that we have with
missing quotes for many developers and testers (probably most or all of them).
And we only come across them if affected users take their time to write
reports.

Getting the requested info from the OP would still be interesting.

(file #50204)
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