llvm dev - Sep 2011 - [LLVMdev] ../llvm/configure fails in Cygwin with space character in path name?

config.status: executing projects/Makefile commands
config.status: executing bindings/Makefile commands
config.status: executing bindings/ocaml/Makefile.ocaml commands
=== configuring in projects/sample (/home/Jon Smith/cl/build/projects/sample
)
configure: running /bin/sh ../../../llvm/projects/sample/configure
--prefix=/usr/local  --cache-file=/dev/null
--srcdir=../../../llvm/projects/sample
configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in /home/Jon
Smith/cl/llvm/autoconf "../../../llvm/projects/sample"//home/Jon
Smith/cl/llvm/autoc
onf
configure: error: ../../../llvm/projects/sample/configure failed for
projects/sample

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Above is the snippet of the reported failure when executing
../llvm/configure found in using the basic setup steps described in
http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html

I'm running the most up to date version of Cygwin. I can confirm that
install-sh does exist in the "/home/Jon Smith/cl/llvm/autoconf"
folder.  I
think there's an issue with the configure script and space character in my
Cygwin home directory ("Jon Smith").  I moved the folder to path that
doesn't contain a space the error went away.  I'm sure if this is a bug
or
not.
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I don't think autoconf build scripts would be tolerant of whitespace
pathname.
To build tools and liibs, I recommend you should build them on desired tree.

Anyway, I think it might be a little problematic if built tools did
not accept whitespace pathnames. Then, please file a bug.

...Takumi

Why shouldn't they accept paths with spaces in them? *nix supports that,
generally. So long as the paths are properly escaped in any input, things should
work. If they don't, it's a bug.

On Sep 21, 2011, at 3:51 AM, NAKAMURA Takumi wrote:
> I don't think autoconf build scripts would be tolerant of whitespace
pathname.
> To build tools and liibs, I recommend you should build them on desired
tree.
> 
> Anyway, I think it might be a little problematic if built tools did
> not accept whitespace pathnames. Then, please file a bug.
> 
> ...Takumi
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