--prefix="/Program\ Files" and build failures

Started by Darcy Buskermolenabout 21 years ago3 messages
#1Darcy Buskermolen
darcy@wavefire.com

While monkeying around with configure --prefix I fond the following. (there
may be more but this one was still in my scroll back...

[.......snip......]
/usr/local/bin/gmake -C ecpglib install
gmake[4]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/postgresql-8.0.0/src/interface
s/ecpg/ecpglib'
gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -fno-strict-aliasing -fpic
-DPIC -DFRONTEND -I../../../../src/interfaces/ecpg/include
-I../../../../src/interfaces/libpq -I../../../../src/port
-I../../../../src/include -c -o path.o path.c
path.c: In function `get_share_path':
path.c:375: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c:375: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c: In function `get_etc_path':
path.c:384: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c:384: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c: In function `get_include_path':
path.c:393: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c:393: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c: In function `get_pkginclude_path':
path.c:402: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c:402: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c: In function `get_includeserver_path':
path.c:411: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '
path.c:411: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '

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#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Darcy Buskermolen (#1)
Re: --prefix="/Program\ Files" and build failures

Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> writes:

While monkeying around with configure --prefix I fond the following.

You probably shouldn't backslash the space.

regards, tom lane

#3Andrew Dunstan
andrew@dunslane.net
In reply to: Tom Lane (#2)
Re: --prefix="/Program\ Files" and build failures

Tom Lane wrote:

Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com> writes:

While monkeying around with configure --prefix I fond the following.

You probably shouldn't backslash the space.

Also recall that we have just gone through some pain so we can make a
postgres installation relocatable. One of the benefits is this is that
you shouldn't have to do stuff like this.

cheers

andrew