[rt.cpan.org #82694] Spaces in folder name causes Windows build failure

Mon Jan 14 08:59:30 2013: Request 82694 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by smylers@cpan.org
       Queue: Alien-wxWidgets
     Subject: Spaces in folder name causes Windows build failure
   Broken in: 0.62
    Severity: Normal
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: Smylers@stripey.com
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82694 >


Hi. It looks like building Alien::wxWidgets doesn't work on Windows in a
folder with a space in its name.

I unzipping Alien-wxWidgets-0.62.tar.gz into a folder called
'Alien-wxWidgets-0.62 2.8.12 global', and doing perl Build failed at:

  Creating library file:
..\..\src\stc\..\..\..\lib\gcc_dll\libwxmsw28u_stc.a
  Unable to find setup.h in directory at inc/My/Build/Win32\.pm line 117

Trying again but with underscores in the folder name rather than spaces,
the build completes fine.

It's easy enough to avoid this problem once you know about it. So if
it's tricky to fix I suggest a note in the installation instructions
saying "Don't do that" would be fine.

Cheers.

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