Re: make fails if path has spaces

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: make fails if path has spaces
Date: 2004-08-02 11:26:42
Message-ID: 200408021126.i72BQgj09502@candle.pha.pa.us
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Andreas Pflug wrote:
> If configure detects some tools in the existing path, the build process
> may fail.
> In my case, there's perl under c:\program files. make will fail while in
> bin/psql because "/c/program" is not found.

I am not surprised. We do not do proper quoting of environment
variables in configure.in. I also don't know if the autoconf program
that creates the configure output does proper quoting either. Can you
tell us where it is failing by looking in config.log?

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