[Devel] [SF BUG #458402 ] FTJam doesn't support paths with spaces

[Antoine Leca]

              The MSVC default installation directory tree path on 
              Windows NT includes embedded spaces. 
              i.e. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98 

              This causes the default Makefile to fail on the 
              initial bootstrap build (Using NMAKE) - fix is to add 
              "" around the declarations of Lib and Include 
              variables. 

              Unfortunately, the built Jam executable appears to 
              parse the MSVCNT variable into several, space 
              delimited, sections. As a result, the search path 
              given to the compiler is split into several parts - 

              /IC:\Program\include /IFiles\Microsoft\include 
              /IVisual\include /IStudio\VC98\include 

              As a result the standard header files are not found. 

              It does not appear to be possible to fix this by 
              modifying Jambase in a similar way to the Makefile 
              because the string is split when the environment 
              variable is first read. Adding quotes to the 
              environment variable doesn't help either - the string 
              is still split at the spaces with the quotes included 
              in the first and last substrings! 

              Our environment does not allow installation into 
              alternative directory structures and unfortunately 
              Windows NT does not support hard or soft links (not in 
              the Win32 subsystem anyway!) 

              Graham Hanson