GNU bug report logs - #15675
building in directory with spaces in name

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: “Adrian” <silvibus <at> autistici.com>

Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:34:02 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 15675-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 15675-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15675: the configure script invoked before make
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 02:26:27 -0400

Version: 24.4

“Adrian” wrote:

> Downloaded and put the emacs24.3 sources in a directory whose name
> contained 1 space. The configure script seemed not able to interpret
> the directory name properly, as it could only grasp the word
> preceeding the space in the directory name. I verified that this was
> the problem, as i changed the directory name to contain no spaces and
> the configure script ran beautifully.

In Emacs trunk, building in directories whose name contains space should
now work. (Installing into such a directory probably still doesn't work.)
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 213 days ago.

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