spaces in filenames/paths

Mon Jun 14 11:21:00 GMT 2004

Sean McNeil writes:
 > On Sat, 2004年06月12日 at 13:17, Michael Koch wrote:
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 > > Am Samstag, 12. Juni 2004 22:07 schrieb Sean McNeil:
 > > > I'm trying to compile Eclispe with gcj/gij and I find that ant is
 > > > having a hard time with gcj. I've used -Dbuild.compiler=gcj and
 > > > -Dbuild.compiler=jikes. jikes works fine and seems to compile
 > > > files/paths with a space in them, but gcj appears to be splitting
 > > > the args at the space and I end up getting errors.
 > > >
 > > > Is this a known issue?
 > > 
 > > I didn't knew space is a valid Character in a class name. Can you give 
 > > any example ?
 > 
 > It isn't the class name, it is a compilation path.
 > 
 > Example:
 > org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT PI/gtk/org/eclipse/swt/internal/gtk/GdkEventKey.java
 > 
 > I think this is passed to gcj correctly, so I suspect that the backend
 > jc1 isn't getting it as a whole argument but as 3 in this case.
It's possible, but I don't think so. I think it's probably a bug elsewhere.
If you produce a standalone testcase I'll have a look.
Andrew.