Yes, I've seen similar issues in all autotools projects. I've seen it most on Mac's as well (don't know if its limited to just that platform though)... The configure scripts don't seem to cope well with spaces in directory names.<br>
<br>Not much can be done about this short of fixing the autotools.<br><br>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Peter Schoenrank <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@schoenrank.ca">peter@schoenrank.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I am using Mac OS X 10.5.6 on an Intel iMac. When I do<br>
<br>
$ mkdir ~/Desktop/scanning\ from\ the\ command\ line<br>
$ cd ~/Desktop/scanning\ from\ the\ command\ line<br>
$ curl '<a href="http://alioth.debian.org/snapshots.php?group_id=30186" target="_blank">http://alioth.debian.org/snapshots.php?group_id=30186</a>' > sane-<br>
scm-latest.tar.gz<br>
$ open sane-scm-latest.tar.gz<br>
$ cd sane-scm-2009-03-24/sane-backends<br>
$ export BACKENDS="pixma canon"<br>
$ ./configure --build=x86-apple-osx<br>
<br>
I get<br>
<br>
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c<br>
checking whether build environment is sane... yes<br>
/bin/sh: /Users/cps/Desktop/scanning: No such file or directory<br>
configure: WARNING: `missing' script is too old or missing<br>
<br>
It would seem that some part of configure is not coping with<br>
~/Desktop/scanning\ from\ the\ command\ line<br>
having spaces in its name.<br>
<br>
<br>
Peter<br>
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