From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:46:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perl/Makefile: handle paths with spaces in the NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER section
Message-ID: <7v8wvbuit7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <osgPH47FO7h-zLUMqwCv-i9BWln2-_AK5T6TI-5mLGFjwAhJ4Bg_lw@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> Use double quotes to protect against paths which may contain spaces.
> ...
> +	echo '	mkdir -p "$(instdir_SQ)"' >> $@

Is this sufficient?  We seem to apply double-sq when writing shell
scriptlet in GIT-BUILD-OPTIONS from the main Makefile, and I suspect you
would need to do something similar.