Junio C Hamano wrote: > Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Use double quotes to protect against paths which may contain spaces. >> ... >> + echo ' mkdir -p "$(instdir_SQ)"' >> $@ > > Is this sufficient? We seem to apply double-sq when writing shell > scriptlet in GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS from the main Makefile, and I suspect you > would need to do something similar. It seems to be sufficient. The double quotes survived into my perl.mak file and the two perl modules were installed correctly when I supplied a prefix with spaces. Is there something else to be concerned about? perl.mak: all: private-Error.pm Git.pm mkdir -p blib/lib rm -f blib/lib/Git.pm; cp Git.pm blib/lib/ rm -f blib/lib/Error.pm cp private-Error.pm blib/lib/Error.pm install: mkdir -p "/home/casey/opt/SunOS spaces/sun4u/lib" rm -f "/home/casey/opt/SunOS spaces/sun4u/lib/Git.pm"; cp Git.pm "/home/casey/opt/SunOS spaces/sun4u/lib" rm -f "/home/casey/opt/SunOS spaces/sun4u/lib/Error.pm" cp private-Error.pm "/home/casey/opt/SunOS spaces/sun4u/lib/Error.pm" instlibdir: echo /home/casey/opt/SunOS spaces/sun4u/lib -brandon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html