From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3571 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2004 18:20:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3533 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2004 18:20:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO poczta.interia.pl) (217.74.65.182) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 19 Feb 2004 18:20:04 -0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by system.wewnetrzny9 (poczta.interia.pl) with SMTP id DBAAC374250; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:20:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by poczta.fm (poczta.fm, from userid 502) id AC05164328; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:20:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from DOM (dial-1108.zgora.dialog.net.pl [62.87.183.84]) by poczta.fm (poczta.fm) with ESMTP id B1F5E64326; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:20:00 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <001d01c3f715$41b60e50$54b7573e@DOM> From: "Roland Zerek" To: "Andrew Cagney" Cc: "gdb" References: <001801c3f2e9$93b6fa50$ede1573e@DOM> <40325FAB.8070201@gnu.org> Subject: Re: Problems with building - part II [gdb 6.0] Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:20:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00246.txt.bz2 > > A'propos spaces in file names: I think this problem does not exist in > > unix-like systems anymore. So why it does here. The matter of notation? > If I try to build GDB in a directory with spaces on a UNIX system, > similar problems occure. > $ pwd > /tmp/sp ce > $ .../configure && make > ... > creating calc.h > cd: can't cd to /tmp/sp > $ > The immediate problem here isn't with windows. Rather its with the > existing build system which is just not tooled up to handle spaces in > file names. Yes, I agree. I've forgotten that the build environment might be incorrect... > The only reason that this appears to be windows specific > is because only windows systems tend to have spaces in files (on windows > creating a file with a space is easy, on UNIX it's pain). Anyway, it looks the makefile is not perfect. In most cases (unix/linux) it works, but if something is not quite standard then problems come. > However, also note that, for similar reasons, once GDB is built it will > have problems: GDB will not open symbol files if there is a space in the > filename or path (Un)fortunatelly, I've already noticed it. It costed me few hours ;-( Only I wonder, what if file names being put into quotations... Roland