[Ecls-list] Help needed: autoconf with spaces in names

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Samium Gromoff <_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru
> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:16:21 +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <
> juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > It seems that "configure" does not work when one of the directories
> contains
> > a space in the name. Is this a known limitation?
>
> I have never /ever/ tried to run configure with --prefix having spaces
> in it.
>
> On Linux due to cultural reasons.
>
> On Windows -- because MinGW strongly encourages one to install itself at
> disc:/MinGW, and one would have to be pressed hard to --prefix a package
> into outside of MinGW's /.


I am not even talking about "prefix", which seems to work fine, but about
the location of sources. If ECL's source tree is say in "/home/jjgarcia/some
path/ecl/" then "configure" refuses to run because /bin/bash refuses to
execute files (config.sub) which are located in paths with spaces. That
seems like a bug in autoconf to me.

BTW, the fact that you have not ever done it does not mean that people
haven't tried and been bitten by it... and complained ;-)

Juanjo

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