>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Keith> I recently discovered that the generated configure scripts have
Keith> problems when the software is installed in a directory whose
Keith> name contains ':' characters. (I was using a timestamp as part
Keith> of the directory name).
Hi!
I'm not surprised you found such problems: the colon is used in many
places to separate various file names. Although there are probably
places where we could avoid this problem, I doubt we could ever
cleanup Autoconf from this (yet because at some places it is the user
herself who uses `:' in the input).
And I honestly don't want to: the colon was chosen precisely because
it's already very special (it is used for PATH and all the other lists
of paths).
So your fix is right: rename your dirs :)
Best regards,
Akim
