From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Whitespace in `${srcdir}' during `configure' Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:12:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83389rnl75.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5460673E.8000002@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415632412 11412 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2014 15:13:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:13:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: haroogan@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 16:13:25 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xnqei-0007Ji-2G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:13:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xnqef-0003jE-Gh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnqeN-0003hH-My for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:13:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnqeH-0005RL-TW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:13:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:41122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnqeH-0005RA-LO; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:12:57 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NET00G00WG7E800@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:08:09 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NET00DFWWPLHR40@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:08:09 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:176685 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:28:07 +0700 > From: Yuri Khan > Cc: Alexander Shukaev , Paul Eggert , > =09emacs-devel >=20 > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: >=20 > > But really, the only case I can think of is a user whose home dir= ectory > > contains spaces and is unable to use /tmp. In which case, I can o= nly > > assume that their sysadmin hates them and wants them to be misera= ble. > > Compiling software is probably the least of their problems. :) >=20 > This case is *the* norm on Windows, starting with 2000 (where /home= is > "C:\Documents and Settings") and up to but not including Vista (whe= re > it was finally renamed "C:\Users"). Also, temporary directories (bo= th > user=E2=80=99s and public) are within this subtree. This all is true, but it is not really relevant, since these directories are rarely if ever seen in Emacs build process on Windows (because we use MSYS for that, which has different ideas about these directories.