build: building depends and make install fails with space in path #12528

1. 
   Sjors commented at 2:41 pm on February 24, 2018: member

   On MacOS 10.13.3 with source files in /Volumes/Glyph 1TB/src/bitcoin

    0sudo make install
    1Password:
    2Making install in src
    3  CXX      crypto/libbitcoinconsensus_la-aes.lo
    4...
    5  CXXLD    libbitcoinconsensus.la
    6/usr/local/bin/gsed: can't read 1TB/src/bitcoin/src/secp256k1/libsecp256k1.la: No such file or directory
    7libtool:   error: '1TB/src/bitcoin/src/secp256k1/libsecp256k1.la' is not a valid libtool archive
    8make[2]: *** [libbitcoinconsensus.la] Error 1
    9make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
   10make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
   

   Related to #9946?

   Running make inside /depends also results in a cascade of errors if the source path has a space in it.

2. fanquake added the label Build system on Feb 25, 2018
3. 
   dongcarl commented at 4:48 pm on June 28, 2018: member

   I think libtool doesn’t support spaces in pathnames…

   Protobuf seems to have the same problem

4. 
   Sjors commented at 9:55 am on June 29, 2018: member

   An easy “fix” might be to just add “Ensure sure there’s no space in the path” to the build instructions.
5. fanquake renamed this:
   make install fails with space in path
   build: building depends and make install fails with space in path
   on Jun 29, 2019
6. 
   hebasto commented at 7:35 pm on November 7, 2021: member

   I think libtool doesn’t support spaces in pathnames…

   Current master (77a2f5d30c5ecb764b8a7c098492e1f5cdec90f0) on macOS Big Sur 11.6.1 (20G224):

   0% ./configure -q
   1configure: WARNING: Libtool does not cope well with whitespace in `pwd`
   2...
   

7. 
   hebasto commented at 7:59 pm on November 7, 2021: member

   #15441 (comment):

   It’s uncommon for people to have spaces in their development environment path; it happened to me because I moved everything to an external SSD drive that had a bad default name. But I wouldn’t consider that a broken environment.

   Does the cited comment mean that this issue could be closed?

8. 
   Sjors commented at 11:41 am on November 9, 2021: member

   I guess it’s a good start.
9. Sjors closed this on Nov 9, 2021

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