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Original bug ID: 1316 Reporter: administrator Status: closed Resolution: not a bug Priority: normal Severity: minor Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Bug description
Full_Name: Burkhard Zimmermann
Version: ocaml-3.05 source dist
OS: Windows XP Professional
Submission from: metis.risc.uni-linz.ac.at (193.170.37.67)
issue:
Building with Cygwin 1.1 fails during "make install" if you try to install to a
directory
whose pathname contains a space character - like "/cygdrive/c/Program Files".
to reproduce:
unpack the distribution, go to the ocaml-3.05 directory, execute:
./configure -prefix "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/ocaml-3.05" -no-tk
make world.opt
make install
(sorry, I don't have the error message which I got any more.)
possible workaround:
install to a directory whose path is free of space characters:
./configure -prefix "/cygdrive/c/ocaml-3.05" -no-tk
best wishes
Burkhard
PS Sorry for bugging you with a problem caused by Microsoft and not by you...
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
Building with Cygwin 1.1 fails during "make install" if you try to
install to a directory whose pathname contains a space character -
like "/cygdrive/c/Program Files".
Right. Almost all Unix software (and this includes Cygwin) fails
miserably when told to install in directories containing spaces.
This is perhaps unfortunate, but so hard to fix and for such a small
benefit that you shouldn't expect an OCaml fix any time soon. Better
install OCaml in a directory with a "normal" Unix name, e.g. /usr/local.
(At any rate, I would advise against installing Cygwin binaries in
Program Files, which is better reserved for pure Windows software that
comes with an installer.)
In the purest Unix tradition, installation dirs cannot currently contain spaces.
Working around this limitation would require Makefile work too painful to
consider :-)
Original bug ID: 1316
Reporter: administrator
Status: closed
Resolution: not a bug
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Bug description
Full_Name: Burkhard Zimmermann
Version: ocaml-3.05 source dist
OS: Windows XP Professional
Submission from: metis.risc.uni-linz.ac.at (193.170.37.67)
issue:
Building with Cygwin 1.1 fails during "make install" if you try to install to a
directory
whose pathname contains a space character - like "/cygdrive/c/Program Files".
to reproduce:
unpack the distribution, go to the ocaml-3.05 directory, execute:
./configure -prefix "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/ocaml-3.05" -no-tk
make world.opt
make install
(sorry, I don't have the error message which I got any more.)
possible workaround:
install to a directory whose path is free of space characters:
./configure -prefix "/cygdrive/c/ocaml-3.05" -no-tk
best wishes
Burkhard
PS Sorry for bugging you with a problem caused by Microsoft and not by you...
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: