Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Roger, * Roger While wrote on Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:29:39PM CET: > OK. I did not look at the actual usage of this example, > but what is definitely true is that the resultant command > passed to gcc/linker whatever, must have the quotes > ala. -L"my space dir". I think we agree on that. No,

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-16 Thread Roger While
Hi Roger, * Roger While wrote on Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 12:29:39PM CET: > OK. I did not look at the actual usage of this example, > but what is definitely true is that the resultant command > passed to gcc/linker whatever, must have the quotes > ala. -L"my space dir". I think we agree on that. N

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-16 Thread Roger While
OK. I did not look at the actual usage of this example, but what is definitely true is that the resultant command passed to gcc/linker whatever, must have the quotes ala. -L"my space dir". I think we agree on that. On an aside note, it seems that autoconf is also busted here. Specifically autotest

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ Cc:ing Derek, maybe he's still interested; this is http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/7091 ] * Roger While wrote on Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 11:27:23AM CET: > Hmm. Derek's patch is interesting. > As an addendum to your mail commenting > on Derek's mail (July 8 2005), note : > (O

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-13 Thread Roger While
m 2005. > > Is anything being/going to be done about this ? > > This is a real pain on most Cygwin machines > > where users are likely to have spaces in > > path names (eg. in HOME - "Roger While"). > > Debian has a open bug about this with has a patch at: &g

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Roger While wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:06:23PM CET: > Actually on Cygwin (and MingW) this whole thing is caused > by the following lines in ltmain.sh : > > -L*) > dir=`$echo "X$arg" | $Xsed -e 's/^-L//'` > # We need an absolute path. > case $dir in > [

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
ain on most Cygwin machines > > where users are likely to have spaces in > > path names (eg. in HOME - "Roger While"). > > Debian has a open bug about this with has a patch at: > http://bugs.debian.org/193163 > And it seems this has been mailed to bug-libtool@gnu.org

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Edward Maros wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:19:43PM CET: > Roger While wrote: > > >Actually on Cygwin (and MingW) this whole thing is caused > >by the following lines in ltmain.sh : > > > > -L*) > >dir=`$echo "X$arg" | $Xsed -e 's/^-L//'` > ># We need an absolute path. > >

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:06:51AM +0100, Roger While wrote: > Per Subject. > Libtool 1.5.22 > > I found some earlier mails about this from 2005. > Is anything being/going to be done about this ? > This is a real pain on most Cygwin machines > where users are likely to have s

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Edward Maros
Roger While wrote: Actually on Cygwin (and MingW) this whole thing is caused by the following lines in ltmain.sh : -L*) dir=`$echo "X$arg" | $Xsed -e 's/^-L//'` # We need an absolute path. case $dir in [\\/]* | [A-Za-z]:[\\/]*) ;; *) absdi

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Howard Chu
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Roger While wrote: Hi Ralf, Well, how ARE you supposed to get around this ? Here's an excerpt : HOME is /cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Roger While build directory is $HOME/open-cobol-0.33 Due to the many layers of shell scripting in libtool

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Roger While wrote: Hi Ralf, Well, how ARE you supposed to get around this ? Here's an excerpt : HOME is /cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Roger While build directory is $HOME/open-cobol-0.33 Due to the many layers of shell scripting in libtool, supporting spaces in

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Roger, * Roger While wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:06:51AM CET: > > I found some earlier mails about this from 2005. > Is anything being/going to be done about this ? > This is a real pain on most Cygwin machines > where users are likely to have spaces in > path names (eg

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Roger While
Actually on Cygwin (and MingW) this whole thing is caused by the following lines in ltmain.sh : -L*) dir=`$echo "X$arg" | $Xsed -e 's/^-L//'` # We need an absolute path. case $dir in [\\/]* | [A-Za-z]:[\\/]*) ;; *) absdir=`cd "$dir" && pwd`

Re: Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Roger While
Roger While wrote on Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:06:51AM CET: > > I found some earlier mails about this from 2005. > Is anything being/going to be done about this ? > This is a real pain on most Cygwin machines > where users are likely to have spaces in > path names (eg. in HOME - &qu

Spaces in path names

2006-01-12 Thread Roger While
Per Subject. Libtool 1.5.22 I found some earlier mails about this from 2005. Is anything being/going to be done about this ? This is a real pain on most Cygwin machines where users are likely to have spaces in path names (eg. in HOME - "Roger While"). R