'make check' fails if there is a space in the filename

[Marc Glisse]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015, Christopher Jefferson wrote:

> If I build gmp 6.1.0 in a directory containing a space, then make
> check fails with:
>
> /bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc  -O2 -pedantic
> -fomit-frame-pointer -m64 -mtune=haswell -march=haswell   -o t-bswap
> t-bswap.o libtests.la ../libgmp.la
> libtool:   error: cannot find the library 'stuff/gmp-6.1.0/libgmp.la'
> or unhandled argument 'stuff/gmp-6.1.0/libgmp.la'
>
> Looking inside tests/libtests.la, I see:
>
> dependency_libs=' stuff/gmp-6.1.0/libgmp.la /Users/caj/temp/my'
>
> Somehow, the filename has got messed up here (the directory should be
> ../my stuff/gmp-6.1.0/...)

Seems that the problem is entirely inside libtool, maybe you should report 
it there? (they might just answer that it isn't supported)

-- 
Marc Glisse