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Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces


On 26/01/2010 20:09, Steven Monai wrote:
$ pwd
/home/steve/My Documents/bglibs

This is not a bug in cygport per se. Spaces in paths is just a bad idea when you're dealing with shell scripts and you will find all sorts of breakage as a result (as has already been well documented on this list).



Yaakov


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