Tom Lane wrote:
Pursuant to Theodore Petrosky's recent trouble report, I thought I would see what happens if you try to build Postgres in a directory whose path contains spaces, or if the install prefix contains spaces.
It doesn't work, not even close.
It looks to me like there are a couple of hundred places in the Makefiles that would need to be fixed by adding quotes around various references to $(libdir) and related variables. I'm afraid that VPATH builds with spaces in the path to the original source tree are not realistically fixable at all; certainly prep_buildtree cannot easily be fixed (it misparses the output of "find") and it looks like we'd need upstream Autoconf changes as well to get configure to work fully in that scenario.
I don't think it's appropriate to try to fix this at RC3 stage, seeing that it's not a regression --- this never worked before either. But maybe we should add it to the TODO list to consider working on someday.
I've just reluctantly managed to convince myself that it's worth a TODO. In 99% of cases it's a matter of "don't do that". If we didn't have relocatable installs it would matter a lot. Maybe for now it's worth checking for and causing an error at the configure stage. That would be nicer than some arbitrary failure later in the process.
cheers
andrew
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