[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50249] Build fails if a parent directory contains a whitespace

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #50249 (project octave):

I would mark this as won't fix. The specific error message here comes from
libtool, which is completely outside of Octave's control to do anything
about.

Here is an example of a shell code line that may be causing this error in the
upstream libtool project:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/tree/build-aux/ltmain.in#n6631

Martin - you are correct if you are talking about other autotools-based
projects. You might want to raise the issue with the GNU libtool project to
see if there is any interest in accepting patches to allow building in
directories and files with spaces. There may also be some parts of autoconf
and/or automake that assume a file name can be used unquoted. If you can get
the upstream projects fixed to accept names with spaces, then we can look at
whether Octave's build files need any tweaking.

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