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libffi fails to configure when path has spaces in it
- From: Joshua Minor <joshm at pixar dot com>
- To: libffi-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:27:07 -0800
- Subject: libffi fails to configure when path has spaces in it
This took me a while to track down, so I thought I'd share it with
others. If you happen to be in a directory that has spaces in the name
(as is often the case on Mac OS X) then libffi's configure script
fails.
% pwd
/Volumes/Kyoto_HD/Users/joshm/foo bar/pyobjc-1.0/libffi-src
% ./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for Cygwin environment... no
checking for mingw32 environment... no
configure: error: can not find install-sh or install.sh in ../ ./../
This appears to be due to the fact that some $variables are not quoted
properly, but the workaround it quite simple. Just build in a path
with no spaces.
-joshm