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

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Thu Dec 31 13:42:08 CET 2009


On 31.12.09 10:44:36, Konrad Rosenbaum wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 December 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 30.12.09 16:17:04, Matthias Pospiech wrote:
> > > Is this seriously a problem
> >
> > Yes, always been and probably will until Qt switches its buildsystem.
> 
> Not to put too fine a point on it, but almost all build systems ultimately 
> rely on make, which like most systems does not handle whitespace very well 

Last I checked make itself doesn't have a problem with Makefile's in
folders with whitespace. And if the generated commands inside the Makefile
have a problem then that can be fixed by applying proper quoting (whatever
proper means on your system).

Andreas

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