# New Ticket Created by "brian d foy" # Please include the string: [perl #129920] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129920 >
In the rakudo-star-2016.07 release, the value given to Configure's --prefix might end up with whitespace (even if the initial value does not have it). This path is not quoted in nqp/Makefile, so that fails and the build cannot continue. I ran into this because I used a path that was a symlink: % perl Configure.pl --gen-moar --prefix /Users/brian/Dropbox/perl6s/rakudo-star-2016.07 Various things had the same problem: % perl Configure.PL --gen-moar --prefix "/Volumes/Big Scratch/Dropbox/perl6s/rakudo-star-2016.07" % perl Configure.PL --gen-moar --prefix /Volumes/"Big Scratch"/Dropbox/perl6s/rakudo-star-2016.07 % perl Configure.PL --gen-moar --prefix /Volumes/Big\\ Scratch/Dropbox/perl6s/rakudo-star-2016.07 Paths interpolated into shell programs or makefiles should be protected in some fashion. -- brian d foy <brian.d....@gmail.com> http://www.pair.com/~comdog/
