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

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Fri Nov 13 17:03:59 UTC 2015


On 2015-11-13 16:41:21 +0100, Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Christopher Jefferson wrote:
> 
> >How about adding something similar to the following to GMP's configure
> >script (warning, not checked, not a configure expert), which would at
> >least produce a better error message to users?
> >
> >case `pwd` in
> > *\ *)
> >   AC_ERROR("can't build in a directory containing spaces")
> > ;;
> >esac
> 
> You would need several tests, for source, build and install
> directories (and possibly DESTDIR). But again, those should go to
> autoconf, automake, libtool, whereever the bug comes from. Adding it
> specifically to gmp does not seem very useful to me.

I agree. For instance, MPFR would need the same kind of test.
I've just reported a bug against libtool:

  http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21910

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