On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:46:55PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > In general, autoconf is not prepared for handling a prefix with > > spaces. I am not sure whether we could find a way to avoid doing > > that... > > Windows has two ways to refer to a path > C:\PROGRA~1\Perl\bin\ > C:\Program Files\Perl/bin\ > so the packager could just use the DOS-style.
And how would you know whether to use PROGRA~1 or PROGRA~2? Here it's not unusual to have both 'Program Files' and 'Programme' Andre'