Re: Mangled argument vector choking on spaces?

[Paul Eggert]

David A. Wheeler wrote:

> Sure, but this minor variation WOULD work in a makefile, and it's an easy fix:
>   $(MAKE) SBCL='$(SBCL)'

That won't work if SBCL contains single quotes, another common practice.

> > The best place to start fixing it would be with GNU Make...
>
> But that only works with GNU make.

GNU make would be just the first step.  The next step would be to get the fix 
into POSIX and into other 'make' implementations.  This sort of thing has been 
done before.

> They can do workarounds with symlinks

How about fixing Autoconf to create a symlink from /tmp to srcdir if srcdir 
contains a space, and using the symlink instead?  That should work too.  Please 
feel free to propose a patch along those lines.