On May 26, 2005, at 12:04 PM, David Lázaro Saz wrote:
On 26/05/2005, at 1:00, Adam Fedor wrote:
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.
But doesn't make always run in the same directory? Anyway I'm
placing this on the back burner for some time, and it's been a long
time since I read the GNU make manual. But I think that this issue
needs to be solved someday because directories with spaces are very
common this days (Windows' "C:\Program Files", for example).
I'm now deeply immersed in cross-compiling, though. I'm also
reviewing how Autoconf works and how it's applied through GNUstep.
My knowledge of Autoconf is somewhat superficial right now. The
first problem I've detected is that the macro AC_FUNC_SETPGRP
prevents cross-compiling because it always needs to run the test
program that it constructs in order to check the signature of
setpgrp. I haven't found how to circumvent it yet.
if test $cross_compiling = no; then AC_FUNC_SETPGRP else #set a
default value fi
I was working on that, but the default for MingW is not what the
normal default would be, but I wasn't entirely sure.