fyi. EasyBuild

2013-12-27 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Dear autoconfers, As you are well aware certain autoconf versions may sometimes require a specific orchestra of the M4-perl-automake-libtool quartet. Such information that relates to building specific software is often scattered within wikis, along with download instructions, patchfiles, etc, yo

Re: Mangled argument vector choking on spaces?

2014-12-31 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hello * and a happy new year, As regards $subject, this so-called STRING_ENCODING_CHARMAP may be relevant: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/blob/master/easybuild/tools/filetools.py#L59 Look around line L1000 for the rational of that design and some pointers. Basically, ` ` becomes

Re: Mangled argument vector choking on spaces?

2015-01-05 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hi David, (this is a belated reply :) On Jan 1, 2015, at 11:57 PM, wrote: >> Basically, ` ` becomes `_space_` and so on, for many more potentially tricky >> characters. >> The aim was to have freedom in relation to packages/filenames. It seems to >> work OK! (*) > > That is an interesting