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Re: configure problem on darwin
>On Aug 29, 2001, Chris Meyer <cmeyer@gatan.com> wrote:
>
>> --prefix=/Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Users/cmeyer/Developer/darwin/test
>> Configuring libiberty...
>> configure: warning: OS: invalid host type
>> configure: warning: X: invalid host type
>
>This is not the only problem you're going to encounter for having
>spaces in prefix. Any shell/make/other-tools meta-characters are
>going to trigger problems. There's no simple fix, I'm afraid.
What about some sort of check at the top level of configure to ensure
that there are no spaces in inappropriate places? I suspect that many
users will not be able to figure out that the spaces are causing the
problems so a configure warning would be nice. Seems like that's the
job of configure anyway...
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