Re: Spaces in pathnames: forbidden, supported or not tested ?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Eric PAIRE wrote:
> Thanks for your answer. I have followed your advice to *not* install neither 
> MinGW nor Msys in a path containing spaces (and everything went well). 
> However, this is not a long term answer, as it seems to me difficult to state 
> that autotools forbid the use of paths with spaces.

In some environments, Windows users do not have sufficient privileges 
to make use of paths without spaces.  The Windows default is to 
provide the user with directories which include spaces.  As Windows 
"Longhorn" and future versions further constrain what ordinary users 
can do, this issue may become more important.

Bob
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