On Saturday 04 September 2010, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jim Meyering wrote on bug-gnulib:
> > Coreutils tests with an absolute build directory name that
> > contains a space. Not quoting this directory name caused a
> > failure. * tests/test-vc-list-files-git.sh: Quote PATH dir name.
> > ...
> > --- a/tests/test-vc-list-files-git.sh
> > +++ b/tests/test-vc-list-files-git.sh
> > @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
> >
> > # along with this program. If not, see
> > <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
> >
> > : ${srcdir=.}
> >
> > -. "$srcdir/init.sh"; path_prepend_ $abs_aux_dir .
> > +. "$srcdir/init.sh"; path_prepend_ "$abs_aux_dir" .
>
> This extra check, part of "make distcheck", that verifies that the
> package builds even when the srcdir or builddir contains a space,
> would be useful for more packages. On mingw, it is frequent to
> have spaces in directories.
>
> Could Automake offer this check, if a certain Automake option is
> specified in AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE?
What about instead making the names of the temporaries source/build/install
directories used by "make distcheck" configurable? This will offer more
flexibility, and won't introduce still another automake option which would
make backward-compatibility more problematic.
I was thinking of something on these lines:
$ cat Makefile.am
...
AM_DISTCHECK_BUILDDIR_NAME = _ b u i l d ## will be relative to $(distdir)
AM_DISTCHECK_SRCDIR_NAME = . ## likewise
AM_DISTCHECK_INSTALLDIR_NAME = i...@l1 ## likewise
If you like the proposal, I might try to implement this (but right away).
Regards,
Stefano
