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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 07:19:59PM +0100, hv@crypt.org wrote: > Burkhard Meier (via RT) <perlbug@perl.org> wrote: > :"nmake install" fails on Win32 if the $(INST_TOP) makefile macro > :specifies an installation directory that contains whitespace characters, > > Thanks for the report; you suggest quoting references to $INST_BIN, > $INST_SCRIPT and $INST_HTML, but I'd have thought that many of the > other variables involved could also be space-ridden paths. Many of them do, and it causes lots of other problems. Here's one which causes a problem when perl is in C:\Program Files\Perl http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=448 It can't be fixed because there's currently no reliable way to bypass the shell and still trap the output of a system command. > Can any win32 expert confirm how much needs to change here? (Preferably > with a patch. :) To fix it properly, I think the whole of MakeMaker will have to be swept for this sort of thing. It likely effects Unix as well, only we tend to avoid spaces in paths under Unix. -- Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job One Worship the sig fileThread Previous | Thread Next