Re: pathnames containing spaces

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 19:27, Russ Allbery wrote:

> James Amundson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > As far as I can tell, it is impossible to get automake to work with
> > pathnames containing spaces. The canonical example is
> >     ./configure --prefix="/c/Program Files"
> >     make install
> > which will cause make to choke because install will be called with
> > unquoted pathnames. I don't know if there are other examples -- I have
> > never made it past this one.
> 
> make uses a space as a separator, and getting it to accept spaces in file
> names is extremely difficult or impossible depending on the version of
> make that you're using.
> 
It should also be noted that Libtool suffers heavily from this problem
also.  The shell uses spaces as separators, which means Libtool isn't
even able to install to a directory containing a space:

dependency_libs="-L/mnt/Program Files/unix/lib -lfoo"

comes out as three arguments, and quoting the -L argument doesn't
actually solve that.

Scott
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