[m-rev.] diff: make configure work if the path of source directory contains spaces

[Paul Bone]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 05:17:17PM +1100, Julien Fischer wrote:
> 
> Note: mmake doesn't currently appear to work if the source directory
> contains spaces - I am looking into this.  The rationale for the change
> below is that we currently get a rather horrible abort from configure that
> doesn't give much of an indication of what's gone wrong.  If the problem
> with mmake is not fixable I will add a check to configure that prints
> out a nicer error message and then aborts.
> 
> Branches: main
> 
> Fix problems with the configure script if the absolute path of the source
> directory contains spaces.
> 
> configure.in:
> 	As above.
> 

I seem to remember that spaces in the path given to --prefix also cause
problems.  These problems might only occur after the user types "mmake
install".  This is a seperate problem to the one you've fixed here.

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