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

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> writes:

> It seems that "configure" does not work when one of the directories
> contains a space in the name. Is this a known limitation?

Allowing spaces in pathnames would require an effort superior to that of
the correction of the Y2K bug.  At least, the Y2K bug was limited to the
handling of dates.  Handling spaces in pathnames would impact absolutely
ALL the programs and scripts ever written (plus the endoctrinement
required to prevent further writing of bad scripts, it would probably be
easier to try to replace all the shells with ones who would avoid the
problem in the first place, which is almost impossible).

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