Re: Space in compiler file name

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Brian Elmegaard <brian@rkspeed-rugby.dk>
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:55:35 +0100
> 
> When I run I get:
> c:/program files/dna/bin/dna.exe 
> 'c:/program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> 
> The compile command is set by:
>   (setq compile-command 
> 		     (progn (concat dna-bin-directory "/" 
> 				    dna-executable-name " "
> 				    (file-name-nondirectory
> 				     buffer-file-name)))) 
>   (setq dna-input-buffer-name (buffer-name))
>   (compile compile-command)
> 
> 
> How can I make dna-bin-directory contain spaces and pass this to
> compile?

Did you try to quote the file name which has the embedded spaces?

compile-command is conceptually a string that you would type at the
shell's prompt, so you need to quote or escape any characters special
for the shell, as you would when you type the command interactively.