Re: [Plplot-devel] Space in full pathname issues

[Chris M. <dev...@gm...>]

cygwin doesn't handle install directories with whitespace fully or at all.

At any rate, you would not be able to determine if a failure was from
a bad fix at the plplot level or the underlying cygwin and the white space.

Cheers,
Chris


On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:41 AM, Arjen Markus <Arj...@de...>
wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan W. Irwin [mailto:ir...@be...
> <ir...@be...>]
> > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 5:09 AM
>
> > However, I have figured out two good alternatives for completely testing
> case (4)
> > which are for some tester with access to Windows to install either/both
> the Cygwin
> > and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 platforms using a installation prefix that has a
> blank in the
> > full pathname.  (Something we normally discourage, but we encourage it
> here for
> > this testing
> > purpose.) A PLplot build on either of such platforms would essentially
> provide a
> > complete test of case (4) instead of the piecemeal work you are doing at
> the
> > moment with only some of the external libraries and executables used by
> PLplot
> > having spaces in their full pathname.
> >
> Just a short update: I locally adjusted the diff commands in
> test_diff.sh.in, as these were causing trouble because of spaces in the
> path name. While doing that I found that CMake finds a “diff” program that
> is most probably not compliant with the Linux/POSIX/… conventions. So the
> report about the differences concerns all examples.
>
> The way around that is to force the use of the MinGW-w64/MSYS2 diff
> program. There may be more such surprises.
>
> And then there is the matter of the mysterious “D?” directory created by
> ctest. It is not the consequence of anything obvious that I could detect.
>
> Especially this latter issue hinders progress in the comprehensive tests,
> as it causes a premature end (find is not able to handle this directory and
> thus an error is thrown). So slow progress for the moment.
>
> Regards,
>
> Arjen
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