[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure fails if there are spaces in `pwd`

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 04:59:43PM +0100, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 03:38:10PM +0100, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> >>Steve Lhomme wrote:
> >>>So here is a patch to allow running configure (in Msys) when the current 
> >>>folder has spaces.
> >>BTW, even after this patch, make will still fail because it doesn't 
> >>handle spaces in includes like:
> >>include $(SRC_PATH)/common.mak
> >>
> >>Even some double quotes don't help... Why not using '..' ? Like 'include 
> >>../config.mak' in the same Makefiles ???
> >
> >out-of-tree builds
> 
> Can you elaborate a little ? Why is config.mak assume to be at a set 
> position and common.mak is assumed to be at another location ?

If you call configure from outside the source directory objects and
binaries will be created in the current directory.

Diego