[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.4.2RC1 planning

[Hamish]

Hamish wrote:
> > This looks like it will fail if there are spaces in
> > the path names:
[...]
Glynn wrote:
> Single quotes:
> 
> make MODULE_TOPDIR="$GISBASE" \
>    ARCH_INC="'-I$GISBASE/include'
> '-I${MYINST_DIR}/include' '-I$TMPDIR/$DIST_DIR/include'" \
>    ARCH_LIBPATH="'-L$GISBASE/lib'
> '-L${MYINST_DIR}/lib' '-L$TMPDIR/$DIST_DIR/lib'" \
> 
> This approach will work so long as the variable is only
> used within commands. The value (which doesn't include the
> outer-most double quotes) will be substituted verbatim
> (including the single quotes) into the command which is passed
> to the shell.

thanks, applied in devbr6, ...

> Make itself doesn't have any quoting mechanism, so you can't
> have spaces in any path which is used as part of a target or
> prerequisite, or an "include" directive, or which is processed
> by make functions (patsubst, wildcard, etc).

as there will be spaces in both the C:\Program Files\ for the
grass include headers and C:\Documents and Settings\ for the
build ($MAPSET/.tmp/) + install target, I guess for wingrass
in cases where the default path names have been used the best we
can do is to ensure that when it fails, it fails gracefully.


Hamish