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 23:20:30 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <5460673E.8000002@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 1415604068 24855 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2014 07:21:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:21:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel To: Glenn Morris , Alexander Shukaev Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 08:21:01 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 1XnjHY-00021v-OZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:21:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnjHY-00005h-6v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:21:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33579) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnjHN-00005Z-Lj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:20:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnjHE-0007Qu-PJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:20:49 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:52262) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnjHE-0007Qi-G1; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 02:20:40 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F001A60034; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 23:20:40 -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 zrioAZqtl5kO; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 23:20:31 -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 4FA5DA60033; Sun, 9 Nov 2014 23:20:31 -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:176663 Archived-At: Glenn Morris wrote: > As you say, a srcdir with spaces is impossible, and given the way > Makefiles work, it seems to me like it always will be. As I understand it the next version of GNU Make will address this issue, which means that once that we can assume that version everywhere (a few years from now), we might be able to pull it off. Admittedly this is not much comfort to a builder who wants spaces in directory names today....