Re: TODO item: make world safe for spaces in build/install paths - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: TODO item: make world safe for spaces in build/install paths
Date
Msg-id 200501032236.41672.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to TODO item: make world safe for spaces in build/install paths  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: TODO item: make world safe for spaces in build/install  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Pursuant to Theodore Petrosky's recent trouble report, I thought I
> would see what happens if you try to build Postgres in a directory
> whose path contains spaces,

The last I heard in the autotools community on this issue was "forget 
it".  Not that that means it's impossible, but you're going to fight a 
hard battle with make, which has no quoting mechanism at all.

> or if the install prefix contains spaces.

This should be achievable, with a few thousand quotes in the right 
places.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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