From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Whitespace in `${srcdir}' during `configure' Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:26:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <5460673E.8000002@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415608028 25037 80.91.229.3 (10 Nov 2014 08:27:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:27:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alexander Shukaev , emacs-devel To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 10 09:27:01 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 1XnkJQ-00049W-6Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:27:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41450 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnkJO-00024J-PI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:26:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnkJL-00024D-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:26:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnkJE-0003At-TO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:26:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnkJE-0003Ap-Qn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:26:48 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XnkJD-0005o5-5Y; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 03:26:47 -0500 X-Spook: Serbian argus chameleon man asset Centro InfoSec MDA X-Ran: +ANisiv-BjExAie%NM'\A/Bv'w;W"6fWa3=a6u-=P_)HXpxUMCWIuF-6yH--M&E#C]KhFD X-Hue: blue X-Attribution: GM User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:176670 Archived-At: Paul Eggert wrote: > 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. Maybe this can be revisited after such a Make gets released. > Admittedly this is not much comfort to a builder who wants spaces in > directory names today.... AFAIK you can build in a directory with spaces today (srcdir=.), you just can't pass a srcdir containing spaces (out-of-tree build). But really, the only case I can think of is a user whose home directory contains spaces and is unable to use /tmp. In which case, I can only assume that their sysadmin hates them and wants them to be miserable. Compiling software is probably the least of their problems. :)