[sword-devel] Build Failure in path with spaces

[Tom Sullivan]

Y'all:

I cannot speak with respect to any particular software or other distros, 
but Debian is just fine with any UTF-8 character in file and directory 
names, including special symbols, Greek, Hebrew, Cryllic.

Hope this helps.

Tom Sullivan
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FAX: 815-301-2835
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On 4/13/20 5:29 AM, David Haslam wrote:
> Lateral thoughts ....
> 
> How might a build work or fail if the SWORD path contains any non-ASCII 
> characters?
> 
> This is certainly conceivable for Windows users whose locale is not 
> English.
> I cannot speak for Linux users.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> David
> 
> Sent from ProtonMail Mobile
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 09:17, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com 
> <mailto:greg.hellings at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> So there's a two-fold failure during compile when handling paths with 
>> spaces.
>>
>> The first is that the build fails when the code is in a path that has 
>> spaces in it. This is because instances of "-I${some_foo}/include" in 
>> autotools are not wrapped with quotation marks.
>>
>> The second is when you invoke: ./configure --prefix="/some/path with a 
>> space/in/it" --sysconfdir="/som/other/path with spaces". This is 
>> because SWICU_DATA and GLOBCONFPATH are not properly escaped for that 
>> situation, either.
>>
>> An additional frustration, since I was in the autotools already to fix 
>> this (the path on the CI server has spaces in it, because I 
>> absentmindedly created the job with spaces in it) is that I can't 
>> finish a compile with autotools out of stream (I like to do my builds 
>> in a subdir of the main source dir so that things build artifacts and 
>> generated objects aren't being intermingled with the code).
>>
>> So I've attached a patch that fixes all of these problems.
>>
>> --Greg
> 
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