Re: TODO item: make world safe for spaces in build/install

Added to TODO:

* Allow building with directories containing spaces

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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Tom Lane wrote:
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> >Pursuant to Theodore Petrosky's recent trouble report, I thought I would
> >see what happens if you try to build Postgres in a directory whose path
> >contains spaces, or if the install prefix contains spaces.
> >
> >It doesn't work, not even close.
> >
> >It looks to me like there are a couple of hundred places in the
> >Makefiles that would need to be fixed by adding quotes around various
> >references to $(libdir) and related variables. I'm afraid that VPATH
> >builds with spaces in the path to the original source tree are not
> >realistically fixable at all; certainly prep_buildtree cannot easily be
> >fixed (it misparses the output of "find") and it looks like we'd need
> >upstream Autoconf changes as well to get configure to work fully in that
> >scenario.
> >
> >I don't think it's appropriate to try to fix this at RC3 stage,
> >seeing that it's not a regression --- this never worked before either.
> >But maybe we should add it to the TODO list to consider working on
> >someday.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> I've just reluctantly managed to convince myself that it's worth a TODO.
> In 99% of cases it's a matter of "don't do that". If we didn't have
> relocatable installs it would matter a lot. Maybe for now it's worth
> checking for and causing an error at the configure stage. That would be
> nicer than some arbitrary failure later in the process.
>
> cheers
>
> andrew
>
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