GNU bug report logs - #21910
libtool should check that directory names do not contain spaces

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Package: libtool;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Earnie <earnie <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: 21910 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21910: libtool should check that directory names do not contain spaces
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:32:02 -0500

On 11/13/2015 11:09 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> libtool doesn't support directory names with spaces, and this will
> not be fixed (at least in the near future). In order to avoid obscure
> error messages (because internally, such paths get split and so on),
> libtool should generate code to make sure that such directory names
> are detected as soon as possible and to output a clear error message.
> 

Why not support all characters allowed in the file system?  Any ASCII
character or now-a-days UNICODE file names are supported in the OS.  Yes
the user needs to be careful with executing a script with white space
and special characters in the file name but not allowing it at all is a
bit fallacious.

-- 
Earnie
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