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

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2005-08-12) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> 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.

Okay, let me quote from a Filser-Brief I read a few years ago: "It's
to drive out of the skin!" and "This makes me foxdevilswild!"

After treating the above variables with AC_SHELL_QUOTIFY, this is what
ends up in preview/Makefile:

packagedatadir = d:/tmp/foo\\\ bar/emacs-21.3/site-lisp/auctex$(null)
[...]
packagelispdir = d:/tmp/foo\\\ bar/emacs-21.3/site-lisp/auctex$(null)

So I guess we need a way to quote the values if they are computed by
preview/configure and to inhibit quoting if they come from the
top-level configure script.

-- 
Ralf