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Re: [Bug-wget] wget2 fails to build if spaces in directory path
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Avinash Sonawane |
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Re: [Bug-wget] wget2 fails to build if spaces in directory path |
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Tue, 27 Jun 2017 13:19:29 +0530 |
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Akash Rawal <address@hidden> wrote:
> We use absolute paths because relative paths break tests when build
> tree is separate from source tree.
Thank you! Didn't know about VPATH builds before and I just loved the idea!
> The reason the make check fails is that test program cd's to a
> subdirectory to run tests. After changing directory, the
> relative path is no longer correct. To further complicate the issue,
> srcdir and top_srcdir are not guaranteed to be relative paths.
Oh! Then, may be it's better to not build wget2 at a location with
space characters in it's path as make doesn't handle well the paths
with space characters in it. And that's not a wget2 issue. ;)
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