Re: Space in dirs break `make install`

Ole Tange <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Message-ID <CA+4vN7zp4aHyBtLxP7uuZRdQc2Ku603X8e10-Q4Ssge9h4ixQw@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 2:19 PM Zack Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
:
> This is a mess, but see how it _always_ expands $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)
> inside shell quotes?  To handle spaces in installation directories
> correctly, you have to do the same thing in every rule you write
> yourself.

You are absolutely right. I copied that from an example in 2014,
though I have no ideas where from.

Thanks for your help.

/Ole
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