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[Configure] Bug with check for PERL when path has spaces (i.e. Windows)

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From: Bogdan <bogdro_rep <at> gmx.us>
To: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>
Cc: 62896 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, danoli3 <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#62896: [Configure] Bug with check for PERL when path has spaces (i.e. Windows)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2023 13:25:38 +0200

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Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>, Fri Apr 21 2023 23:57:12 GMT+0200 
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> Thanks for the report, Dan, and for looking into this, Bogdan.
> 
>              #!User bins/perl
> 
> Apart from anything else, this cannot be solved. Shebang lines do not
> support quoting.
> 
> Thus I think what we should do is have configure give a better error
> message when the Perl path contains whitespace, that is, explicitly
> stating it can't be supported.  Instead of just failing "by the way" due
> to the lack of quoting. Would you be up for making a patch for that?


 Sure, seems easy. Too bad I don't see where configure is checking 
for 'mkdir -p' and 'install -c', I could fix that as well.
 But anyway, patch for the Perl path attached. I thought about using 
'grep -q' and checking the exit code, but maybe this version is more 
portable.

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