Why does the Haskell Platform Windows installer suggest a path with spaces?!

Why does the Haskell Platform Windows installer suggest a default installation path that contains spaces?! This breaks builds: configure:2365: checking build system type configure:2379: result: x86_64-pc-msys configure:2399: checking host system type configure:2412: result: x86_64-pc-msys configure:2487: checking for gcc configure:2514: result: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell Platform\8.6.5\lib\../mingw/bin\gcc.exe configure:2743: checking for C compiler version configure:2752: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell Platform\8.6.5\lib\../mingw/bin\gcc.exe --version >&5 C:\/Users/capnf/Documents/GitHub/gitit/network-3.1.1.1/configure: line 2754: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell: No such file or directory configure:2763: $? = 127 configure:2752: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell Platform\8.6.5\lib\../mingw/bin\gcc.exe -v >&5 C:\/Users/capnf/Documents/GitHub/gitit/network-3.1.1.1/configure: line 2754: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell: No such file or directory -db

On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, David Banas wrote:
Why does the Haskell Platform Windows installer suggest a default installation path that contains spaces?!
Yes, very annoying. I also ran into this problem.

On 28. 03. 20 14:36, David Banas wrote:
Why does the Haskell Platform Windows installer suggest a default installation path that contains spaces?! This breaks builds:
configure:2365: checking build system type configure:2379: result: x86_64-pc-msys configure:2399: checking host system type configure:2412: result: x86_64-pc-msys configure:2487: checking for gcc configure:2514: result: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell Platform\8.6.5\lib\../mingw/bin\gcc.exe configure:2743: checking for C compiler version configure:2752: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell Platform\8.6.5\lib\../mingw/bin\gcc.exe --version >&5 C:\/Users/capnf/Documents/GitHub/gitit/network-3.1.1.1/configure: line 2754: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell: No such file or directory configure:2763: $? = 127 configure:2752: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell Platform\8.6.5\lib\../mingw/bin\gcc.exe -v >&5 C:\/Users/capnf/Documents/GitHub/gitit/network-3.1.1.1/configure: line 2754: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell: No such file or directory
Someone was lazy and didn't quote his environment variable expansions. Fix the configure script source instead. -- VH
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David Banas
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Henning Thielemann
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Václav Haisman