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Problem with home directory name with spaces
- From: Motivus <motivus at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 09:05:55 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Problem with home directory name with spaces
Hi. My default installation of Cygwin 1.3.11-3 created
my home directory on my W2K machine as
/home/FirstName MI LastName/
Subsequently, a GNU utility I am invoking to build
binutils is choking when I provide the installation
directory as an argment:
$ export PREFIX=`pwd`/install
...
$ ../binutils-2.11.2/configure --target=$TARGET
--prefix=$PREFIX
The error I get:
"Can only configure for one host and one target at a
time."
When I issue the command:
$ ../binutils-2.11.2/configure --target=$TARGET
--prefix="/home/First M Last/install"
I get the following response:
"Configuring for a i686-pc-cygwin host.
[: M: unknown operand"
where M is my middle initial.
Is it ok to go ahead and rename my Cygwin home
directory to something more UNIX? Can someone refresh
my memory on how I do this when the dir already has
contents?
Motivus
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