From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10789 invoked by alias); 11 Feb 2004 05:50:58 -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 10775 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2004 05:50:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO monty-python.gnu.org) (199.232.76.173) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Feb 2004 05:50:57 -0000 Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AqnGH-0000TQ-Ey; Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:50:13 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 05:50:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Christopher Faylor CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com, rolandz@poczta.fm In-reply-to: <20040211052236.GA9887@redhat.com> (message from Christopher Faylor on Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:22:36 -0500) Subject: Re: Problems with building [gdb 6.0] Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <000b01c3efba$8b7ac420$f9b7573e@DOM> <20040211051509.GA22903@nevyn.them.org> <20040211052236.GA9887@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00101.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:22:36 -0500 > From: Christopher Faylor > > > >Try building in a directory with no spaces in the pathname. I don't > >konw if that's supposed to work, but judging from the error messages, > >it looks like it doesn't. > > It should work but it is a frequent cause for complaint on cygwin, not > for anything to do with cygwin, but because most people on UNIX don't use > directories with spaces and so there are unknown assumptions in the build > process. Of course, Windows loves to use directories with spaces in them. How about adding some blurb along these lines to INSTALL?