cabal-install does not quote the path in the --with-gcc parameter

[tibbe]

According to haskell/network#118 cabal-install does properly quote the path passed to --with-gcc, causing failures on Windows when the path contains a space.

[23Skidoo]

Would be helpful if a build log was provided.

[23Skidoo]

I'll try to test my fix with network-2.4.2.1 on Windows.

[23Skidoo]

@tibbe
My patch didn't fix the problem. From my reading of the build log, this issue is actually autoconf's fault (or maybe a bug in your configure.ac):

configure:2377: checking for gcc
configure:2404: result: "c:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\mingw\bin\gcc.exe"
configure:2633: checking for C compiler version
configure:2642: "c:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\mingw\bin\gcc.exe" --version >&5
./configure: line 2644: "c:\Program: No such file or directory

As you can see, it gets the correct path from Cabal (this actually works even without my patch), but then fails because the path contains spaces.

[23Skidoo]

I've reverted my patch. One interesting workaround suggested on StackOverflow is to use short path names on Windows.

[DemiMarie]

The only solution I know of is to either fix or ditch Autoconf, which has a bad track record with handling spaces in variables.

[gbaz]

For the record, I've found the short names solution to work. What a pain :-/

[23Skidoo]

IIUC, @hvr fixed this in #2946 (we now use ./configure CC=/path/to/gcc instead of ./configure --with-gcc=/path/to/gcc). If it still doesn't work, then it's a bug in Autoconf.

[23Skidoo]

If it still doesn't work, then it's a bug in Autoconf.

It doesn't, see #3185.