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Date: | Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:13:34 -0600 |
From: | "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net> |
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Subject: | Re: Bug: cygport fails when the working directory pathname contains spaces |
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On 26/01/2010 23:38, Steven Monai wrote: > Imagine if a program like 'cp' failed because the current working > directory has a pathname that contains spaces. You'd probably agree with > me that 'cp' had a rather serious flaw, wouldn't you? cygport is not 'cp'. cygport is a shell script, as are configure scripts, the autoconf-generated kind being the most common build system out there. Shell scripts usually use spaces for IFS. Hence distinguishing between a space in a file name/path and whitespace between arguments is fraught with difficulties. > I stand by my original report. This is a bug. Not a serious show-stopper > by any stretch, but a bug, nonetheless. > > When I find the time and motivation, I may try my hand at fixing it > myself. I'll report back with patches if I do. As the author of cygport, I'll advise you that your time will be much better spent getting used to not using spaces in file and directory names rather than pretending to "fix" a case that will never be guaranteed to work. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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