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Re: [PATCH] perl/Makefile: handle paths with spaces in the NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER section

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 6, 2008, 20:15 UTC
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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:
> There are problems here with spaces, single quotes, and double quotes.
> I'll follow up in another email.

I guess we've opened up a large can of worms. Let's have the minimum fix that says "We do support whitespace in these paths but no other funnies" and leave the more intrusive one for post 1.6.0, for now.

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  1. perl/Makefile: handle paths with spaces in the NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER sectionBrandon Casey, Aug 5, 2008
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  3. Brandon CaseyAug 6, 2008
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  7. perl/Makefile: handle paths with spaces by adding additional quotingBrandon Casey, Aug 6, 2008
  8. Brandon CaseyAug 6, 2008
  9. Brandon CaseyAug 7, 2008
  10. perl/Makefile: make NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER section more robustBrandon Casey, Aug 6, 2008

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