Bug 7910 - build fails in directories with a space in their name
Summary: build fails in directories with a space in their name
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Samba 3.2
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Build environment (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2.5
Hardware: x86 Linux
: P3 minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Björn Jacke
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Reported: 2011-01-12 05:43 UTC by Jules
Modified: 2011-01-12 16:37 UTC (History)
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Description Jules 2011-01-12 05:43:36 UTC 
Trying to build samba in a directory whose name contains a space results in errors from 'make':

jules@vengeance:/work/Projects/IT Projects/Linux/samba-3.2.5/source$ make
Makefile:1551: warning: overriding commands for target `/work/Projects/IT'
Makefile:1216: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/work/Projects/IT'
Makefile:1616: warning: overriding commands for target `/work/Projects/IT'
Makefile:1551: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/work/Projects/IT'
Makefile:1690: warning: overriding commands for target `/work/Projects/IT'
Makefile:1616: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/work/Projects/IT'
Makefile:1828: warning: overriding commands for target `/work/Projects/IT'
Makefile:1690: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/work/Projects/IT'
Makefile:2686: warning: overriding commands for target `/work/Projects/IT'
Makefile:1828: warning: ignoring old commands for target `/work/Projects/IT'
make: Circular /work/Projects/IT <- /work/Projects/IT dependency dropped.
make: *** No rule to make target `Projects/Linux/samba-3.2.5/source/configure.in', needed by `/work/Projects/IT'.  Stop.
Comment 1 Björn Jacke 2011-01-12 16:37:10 UTC 
even if we could find and fix all the cases where spaces in $PWD (and whereever they come into play) would have to be escaped we would need to keep that working in the future. NO developer will actually think about people using spaces in $PWD, $PREFIX or $DESTDIR. Better rename your folder "IT Projects" to IT_Projects :-). However if you have a patch to easily fix your issues, feel free to add it here. For the time being I'll make this a WONTFIX, sorry.