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.
Have I missed something, or is this a bug? It is a serious problem when using MSYS or Cygwin. --Jim Amundson