Re: Building in a separate directory

[Adam Fedor]

On May 25, 2005, at 1:48 PM, David Lázaro Saz wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I've been trying to build gnustep-make inside a separate directory.  
> The directory where the sources are contains spaces in its name and 
> configure fails.  This seems to be a bug in autoconf.  Some of the 
> macros lack quotes (") that are needed is this where to function.
>
> Has somebody any experience with this and knows whether it can be 
> fixed without touching autoconf, or should I simply notify the 
> autoconf mailing list (after trying the last beta, of course)?

It might be nice to fix autoconf, but then you'll run into make. 'make' 
doesn't like spaces in directories either - and this is a fundamental 
design issue.