[fpc-devel]Fix for Make / Error with space in PATH env var

Peter Vreman peter at freepascal.org
Mon Jun 28 15:43:34 CEST 2004


>> It looks like a hack. Maybe it can fix this issue for pwd.exe, but it
>> occurres more often in Makefiles. Those other parts will then still
>> fail.
>
> Peter,
>
> I agree with you.  However, Make is unwilling to fix the problem.  They
> feel that having spaces in the path or in filenames is bad programming and
> won't support the function.
>
> We checked the workaround and it allowed us to compile Lazarus.  Before we
> couldn't.
>
> Any other ideas what we could do to address the problem?

Write a make replacement that supports Makefile.fpc/Lazarus package
descriptions.






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