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On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Andrea "XFox" Govoni wrote:
>
>> This has been a problem with autoconf for ages since it is very
>> difficult to portably handle spaces when using command-line utilities.
>> The simple solution is "don't do that!".
>
> And what is the complicated one? :-)
> If this is an autoconf's bug, should I file a bug against it?
> I cannot believe that in the twenty-first century we cannot yet deal
> with spaces and other characters in the pathname=85
> I know almost nothing about all the autoconf and configure thing, where
> do you suggest me to start looking at if I would try to elaborate a
> patch by myself?

Autoconf produces a Unix shell script.  Unix shell scripts pass=20
arguments to sub-commands using spaces to delimit the arguments.=20
Sometimes argument lists are expanded multiple times and expanded=20
arguments may include spaces.  Given the differences in shell behavior=20
across the many systems that Autoconf supports, it is a very difficult=20
job to fix the spaces problem.  The Autoconf maintainers are well=20
aware of the issue but no fix is within easy reach.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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