Re: Make install cannot handle directory names with a SPC in it

[Stefan Monnier]

>> This seems to be a limitation of the venerable mkinstalldirs program.
>> I wonder how other projects handle this problem?

> We could replace the mkinstalldirs in Emacs with one from a recent
> automake, which seems to have addressed this issue.  But I think that
> trying to use paths with spaces will still not work, because there are
> many many places in the Emacs Makefile where paths are used without
> quoting.  So paths with spaces will be split by the build process
> before even being passed to mkinstalldirs.

That should be fixed as well.  Maybe not right now (i.e. can wait after
Emacs-22, since those bugs have been with us for ever), but these are bugs.


        Stefan