Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.
Interesting. TODO updated:
* Allow building with directories containing spaces
There are two capabilities here, first the ability to build from a source directory that contains spaces, and second
theability to install into a directory that contains spaces. The first is probably not possible because 'gmake' and
othercompiler tools do not fully support spaces in path names. The second is possible with proper quoting in the
makefiles. Because PostgreSQL supports relocatable installs, it is possible to install into a directory that doesn't
containspaces and then copy the install to a directory with spaces.
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