From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Whitespace in `${srcdir}' during `configure' Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:17:01 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5460666D.1040805@cs.ucla.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415603868 21658 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2014 07:17:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:17:48 +0000 (UTC) To: Alexander Shukaev , emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 08:17:41 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 1XnjEL-00088D-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:17:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnjEK-0007h8-ET for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:17:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33005) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnjE9-0007gt-Tn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:17:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnjE2-0006Y0-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:52190) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnjE2-0006Wm-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:17:22 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1F86A60034; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 23:17:14 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id K+JlOBVeeTpE; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 23:17:06 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 221CEA60033; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 23:17:06 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 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:176662 Archived-At: It'd be nice if Emacs 'configure' allowed arbitrary source-directory names. Unfortunately, almost none of the changes in the patch that you sent fix any bugs, and almost all the bugs in this area would remain unfixed by the patch. If you'd like to help fix the many problems in this area, I suggest building and configuring Emacs in a directory whose name contains spaces, tabs, and characters from the set !"#$%&'()*+,-.:;<=>?@[\]^`{|}~ and make sure that everything works; also, make sure that every change in the patch actually fixes a bug. It could be that we can support some characters (e.g, spaces) but not others (e.g., apostrophes, colons), but in any event the more characters that we can support the better, and it'd be good to document the ones we can't.