[Qt-interest] Qt fails to compile only because of whitespace in path

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 30.12.09 16:17:04, Matthias Pospiech wrote:
> Error:
> 
> #NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'C:\Program'
> #Stop.
> #Building qmake failed, return code 2
> #
> #C:\Program Files\Qt\msvc\2005\4.6.0>
> 
> 
> Is this seriously a problem

Yes, always been and probably will until Qt switches its buildsystem.

> Is this always a problem when I want to compile qmake based projects?

IIRC: No, qmake itself can handle the .pro file being in a path with
whitespace. Its just the .pro/.pri files in Qt's own buildsystem that
cannot handle the whitespace. 

Andreas

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