From: Keith M. <kei...@to...> - 2005-09-27 14:59:28
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Angus Leeming wrote: > Right. However, we went to some trouble to define prefix et al. here in > an attempy to support Windows, Mac and Posix machines out of the box. > Unfortunately, we failed with Windows because the autotools currently > barf all over the place with "paths with spaces", so we never got a > default > prefix='C:/Program Files/LyX' > to work. Indeed. This is a well established problem. Blame Bill and his `Redmond Gang', for the idiotic concept of putting spaces in path names. :-) ( Is `C:\Program Files\LyX' *really* any more difficult to read than ) ( `C:/ProgramFiles/LyX'? I don't think so -- indeed IMO, the reverse ) ( may well be true. ) > Apparently this is something the wizards are aware of though. I saw a comment recently, from aut...@gn..., that the next release may eliminate the checks, which currently choke on path names with embedded spaces. Regards, Keith. |