Fwd: Space in dirs break `make install`

2020-10-28 Thread Ole Tange
I use autoconf for GNU Parallel. $ autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 If I create a user with a homedir: "/home/ space " and use ./configure --prefix "$HOME" Then "make install" fails: make[3]: Entering directory '/home/ space /parallel-20200922/src' rm /home/ space /bin/s

Re: Space in dirs break `make install`

2020-11-04 Thread Ole Tange
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 2:19 PM Zack Weinberg wrote: : > This is a mess, but see how it _always_ expands $(DESTDIR)$(bindir) > inside shell quotes? To handle spaces in installation directories > correctly, you have to do the same thing in every rule you write > yourself. You are absolutely right