[Haskell-cafe] Why does the Haskell Platform Windows installer suggest a path with spaces?!

Václav Haisman vhaisman at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 15:01:34 UTC 2020


On 28. 03. 20 14:36, David Banas wrote:
> Why does the Haskell Platform Windows installer suggest a default
> installation path that contains spaces?!
> This breaks builds:
> 
> configure:2365: checking build system type
> configure:2379: result: x86_64-pc-msys
> configure:2399: checking host system type
> configure:2412: result: x86_64-pc-msys
> configure:2487: checking for gcc
> configure:2514: result: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell
> Platform\8.6.5\lib\../mingw/bin\gcc.exe
> configure:2743: checking for C compiler version
> configure:2752: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell
> Platform\8.6.5\lib\../mingw/bin\gcc.exe --version >&5
> C:\/Users/capnf/Documents/GitHub/gitit/network-3.1.1.1/configure: line
> 2754: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell: No such file or directory
> configure:2763: $? = 127
> configure:2752: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell
> Platform\8.6.5\lib\../mingw/bin\gcc.exe -v >&5
> C:\/Users/capnf/Documents/GitHub/gitit/network-3.1.1.1/configure: line
> 2754: C:\PROGRA~1\Haskell: No such file or directory

Someone was lazy and didn't quote his environment variable expansions.
Fix the configure script source instead.

-- 
VH

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