>While paths with spaces in them may be a fact of reality, they are >non-portable according to POSIX. It is going to be an uphill battle if >you want to submit patches to make autoconf automatically handle file >names with spaces, as there is nothing portable about them. I just thought of an alternative. What if program searching did NOT insert the directory path in front? At least if the path includes a space and the directory is part of the PATH? Seems to me that AC_CHECK_PROG could be modified to allow something like this as this as an option. E.g. when using AC_CHECK_PROG to search for "sbcl", the generated makefile would say: SBCL = sbcl If this was done, then the fact that the directory path includes a space is no longer mentioned. --- David A.Wheeler _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
