[NTG-pdftex] [pdftex-Bugs][856] build.sh can't handle pathnames with spaces

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Bugs item #856, was opened at 2007-08-14 07:48
>Status: Closed
Priority: 1
Submitted By: Francky Leyn (leyn)
Assigned to: Martin Schröder (oneiros)
Summary: build.sh can't handle pathnames with spaces 
>Resolution: Rejected
Group: v1.40.4
Category: Build process


Initial Comment:
Dear,

I want to compile pdftex for cygwin.
I untarred the distribution in
/cygdrive/c/Document and Settings/Francky Leyn/My 
Documents/LaTeX

leyn at newyork ~/LaTeX/pdftex-1.40.5
$ ./build.sh
...

build.sh stops with the following error:

configure: error: can not run /cygdrive/c/Documents 
and Settings/Francky Leyn/My Documents/LaTeX/pdftex-
1.40.5/build/../src/config/config.sub

The file exists and is executable:

$ ls -lh "/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Francky 
Leyn/My Documents/LaTeX/pdftex-
1.40.5/build/../src/config/config.sub"
-rwx------+ 1 leyn None 32K Jul 31 
19:00 /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Francky 
Leyn/My Documents/LaTeX/pdftex-
1.40.5/build/../src/config/config.sub

The file /cygdrive/c/Documents doesn't exist
of course and that is why buid.sh stops its execution.

Could the scripts be modified so that they can handle 
spaces?

Best regards,

Francky Leyn


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Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros)
Date: 2007-08-14 23:52

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I'm sorry, but fixing this needs a change in the whole
autofoo system of TL, which is not likely to happen soon.

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Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros)
Date: 2007-08-14 08:50

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This needs a new configure script; I've pushed this upstream
(to TeXlive).

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