Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Spaces in file names on Windows

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> The configuration succeeds (apart from some seemingly insignificant
> problem with changing back to the top level directory) if the
> "export EMACS" statement in the top level configure.ac is disabled
> or removed.
>
> Is this statement mandatory?

Probably not.  It is intended to save the lower configure.ac from
repeating tests that would turn out the same, anyway.

> If I configure AUCTeX with something like `EMACS=/path/to/emacs
> ./configure --prefix=/some/prefix', the preview/configure script
> gets the given Emacs even if the statement is disabled.  (... and
> the path in a set $EMACS will be used for all sorts of variables,
> like $lispdir, $packagelispdir, etc., instead of --prefix; don't
> know if this is correct)
>
> Anyway, after a succeeded configuration I am left with a top-level
> Makefile with the following paths:
>
> prefix = d:/tmp/foo\ bar/emacs-21.3$(null)

Fine.

> exec_prefix = ${prefix}$(null)
> libdir = ${exec_prefix}/lib$(null)
> packagedatadir = d:/tmp/foo bar/emacs-21.3/site-lisp/auctex$(null)

Not fine.

> datadir = ${prefix}/share$(null)
> localstatedir = ${prefix}/var$(null)
> infodir = ${prefix}/info$(null)
> lispdir = d:/tmp/foo\ bar/emacs-21.3/site-lisp$(null)

Fine.

> auctexstartfile=d:/tmp/foo\ bar/emacs-21.3/site-lisp/auctex.el

> packagelispdir = d:/tmp/foo bar/emacs-21.3/site-lisp/auctex$(null)

Not fine.

> packagedatadir = d:/tmp/foo bar/emacs-21.3/site-lisp/auctex$(null)

Not fine.

> Quoting is definitely messed up here.  But I still don't know if
> this is a problem with the MSYS shell or our scripts.

I'd guess our scripts.  Probably some AC_SHELL_QUOTIFY declarations
are missing or so.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum