Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 04:57 PM, Nicola Pero wrote:

> > I tried running GNUstep.sh ... found that it fell over because under xp
> > the path to a users home directory has spaces in it ... modified 
> > GNUstep.sh
> > to quote variables better and fix that problem.
>
> Hhh ... didn't know this ... it might well cause horrible problems ...
> make doesn't like spaces in paths ... it always assumes that no filename
> or path has spaces in it, and it's like a design assumption, I'm not 
> sure
> there's something we can do about it ... make won't even *start*
> processing a gnustep-make GNUmakefile if there are spaces in paths,
> because just the first command,
>
> include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make
>
> will *never* work if the GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES path has an embedded space in
> it ... and this is only the first command ...
>
> Argh.

Not that I doubt you, but I checked for myself to see the degree to which
this is the case, and it does appear to be a pervasive and fundamental
problem.

I guess the best we can do then is to add a check for embedded spaces in
the makefiles system.

Perhaps if GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT contains spaces, we could replace it with
/home/$USERNAME (which is where cygwin user info seems to go)
as long as $USERNAME does not contains any spaces, and with 
GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT
otherwise?