[LLVMdev] ../llvm/configure fails in Cygwin with space character in path name?

Eric Christopher echristo at apple.com
Thu Sep 22 11:27:53 PDT 2011


On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote:

> Am 22.09.2011 14:31, schrieb Csaba Raduly:
>> GNU Make doesn't handle embedded spaces:
> 
> Actually it does.
> It's just not pretty.
> See http://www.cmcrossroads.com/index2.php?option=com_content&id=7859
> (Google it as "GNU Make meets file names with spaces in them", including 
> the quotes.)
> 
> Note that the more obscure techniques can be reliably used in an LLVM 
> context, since LLVM relies on GNU Make anyway.
> I do not know whether this will stay so in the future; I guess that's 
> for the LLVM team to answer.

I'll review patches handling this sort of thing, but it's so far down my list of priorities
that it'll never get done if someone waits for me to do it.

-eric



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