10 Feb
2005
10 Feb
'05
9:28 a.m.
[The] configure script can't handle blanks in paths
Good point. It is not just the configure script that will fail, but also the driver scripts for nhc98, hmake, and so on. I have fixed these scripts, and will commit then to CVS once they have been tested.
In fact my modifications failed, and it turns out to be rather more complicated than I imagined to support directory names with spaces, everywhere they might required. Shell scripts and Makefiles end up with multiple levels of quoting around almost everything, and I'm not sure it is worth adding the bother to the normal case, just to handle an extremely rare case. Instead, I am inclined to detect a build path with spaces early on, and reject it. Regards, Malcolm