Thread: --prefix="/Program\ Files" and build failures

While monkeying around with configure --prefix I fond the following.  (there 
may be more but this one was still in my scroll back...

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/usr/local/bin/gmake -C ecpglib install
gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.0.0/src/interface
s/ecpg/ecpglib'
gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -fno-strict-aliasing  -fpic 
-DPIC -DFRONTEND -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include 
-I../../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../../src/port 
-I../../../../src/include   -c -o path.o path.c
path.c: In function `get_share_path':
path.c:375: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c:375: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c: In function `get_etc_path':
path.c:384: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c:384: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c: In function `get_include_path':
path.c:393: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c:393: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c: In function `get_pkginclude_path':
path.c:402: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c:402: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c: In function `get_includeserver_path':
path.c:411: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c:411: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '



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Darcy Buskermolen
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Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> writes:
> While monkeying around with configure --prefix I fond the following.

You probably shouldn't backslash the space.
        regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:

>Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> writes:
>  
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>>While monkeying around with configure --prefix I fond the following.
>>    
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>You probably shouldn't backslash the space.
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>
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>

Also recall that we have just gone through some pain so we can make a 
postgres installation relocatable. One of the benefits is this is that 
you shouldn't have to do stuff like this.

cheers

andrew