Tom Lane wrote:
> 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,
The last I heard in the autotools community on this issue was "forget
it". Not that that means it's impossible, but you're going to fight a
hard battle with make, which has no quoting mechanism at all.
> or if the install prefix contains spaces.
This should be achievable, with a few thousand quotes in the right
places.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/