On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 17:07, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > In fact there is two different problems. One is that we cannot > support spaces in source filenames.
Right. I wasn't even thinking about that, but I definitely see your point. I don't suppose colons in source filename would be work very well, either. > (Incidentally this will also break builds if > the package has been unpacked in a directory with a space, and > $(srcdir) is absolute.) Is there any check for that? It might save someone confusion at some point. > Your problem is different. You want spaces in installation > paths. Yes. That's really what I had in mind. > Those paths do not appear as target or dependencies in > Makefiles so there is no insurmountable obstacle. As you say > it's a simple matter of quoting. Well sort of... The appended > patch is the start of a fix for this. Excellent! Thank you very much. Best, Jim Amundson
