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

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2010, Paul Bone wrote:

> 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.

I will try that out as well.

Julien.
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