From: cesarb@web4u.com.br
Subject: automake: automake's distcheck doesn't work in dirs with spaces
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Reply-To: cesarb@web4u.com.br
Message-Id: <E11Mgt3-0000Hf-00@cesarb2.cesarb.personal.intranet>
Sender: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.personal.intranet>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 21:07:25 -0300

Package: automake
Version: 1.3-2

If the current dir's path has spaces in its name, automake's distcheck doesn't
work. It fails to quote the string when calling automake to include the
dependencies (uses --build-dir=$here instead of --build-dir="$here", and the
same problem is in --output_dir).

Fixing it using double quotes will, however, cause trouble if the current dir's
path has a double quote in its name.

Besides, the same quoting problem is probably found in other places in
automake.


Here's a transcript:

cesarb2:~/projects/ufrj/1999/2/Computacao\ II/trab1/src$ make distcheck
rm -rf trab1-0alpha0
mkdir trab1-0alpha0
chmod 777 trab1-0alpha0
here=`cd . && pwd`; \
top_distdir=`cd trab1-0alpha0 && pwd`; \
distdir=`cd trab1-0alpha0 && pwd`; \
cd . \
  && automake --include-deps --build-dir=$here --srcdir-name=. --output-dir=$top_distdir --foreign Makefile
automake: II/trab1/src.am: `II/trab1/src.am' does not exist
automake: II/trab1/src/trab1-0alpha0.am: `II/trab1/src/trab1-0alpha0.am' does not exist
automake: Makefile.in: cannot write: No such file or directory
make: *** [distdir] Error 1

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux cesarb2 2.2.12 #1 Fri Aug 27 13:56:08 EST 1999 i586 unknown