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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] OT: Whitespace in paths (was: Patch applying function for EAPI 6)
From:       Martin Vaeth <vaeth () mathematik ! uni-wuerzburg ! de>
Date:       2013-08-24 12:43:26
Message-ID: slrnl1hajl.ind.vaeth () lounge ! imp ! fu-berlin ! de
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> [Whitespace in paths]
>> Not that it's anywhere near supported most of the place.
>
> Many upstream build systems fail with it.

Make and autotools are not able to handle whitespace reasonable.
However, this does not mean that gentoo cannot:

Build systems usually use relative paths to their build/source dirs
(except for linking to libraries or installing which is both a
different issue). And even if they do, it would be sufficient
that PORTAGE_TMPDIR contains no whitespace.
All other portage directories have nothing to do with upstream
build systems.


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