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

[Arnold Krille]

On Thursday 31 December 2009 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

No, make handles white spaces quite well. Its all the additional tools to 
create makefiles that don't do proper quoting...

> (why Windows insists on putting whitespace into _system_ folder names is
> beyond me anyway).

Maybe because "Program Files" translates to "Progra~1"? :-P

Have fun and a happy new year,

Arnold
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