Advise not to build in a directory whose name contains a space or apostrophe.
authorBen Pfaff <blp@gnu.org>
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:59:17 +0000 (20:59 -0700)
committerBen Pfaff <blp@gnu.org>
Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:59:17 +0000 (20:59 -0700)
Thanks to Richard Brittain <Richard.Brittain@dartmouth.edu> for pointing
out the problem.

INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ea43342eef7223bce3b2fcb76d5ba817166bf2fd..e687c55114b6d45690a3a48965225dcf92a6bbb7 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ release.
      available.  The most common of these are listed under "Optional
      Features", below.
 
+     It is best to build and install PSPP in directories whose names do
+     not contain unusual characters such as spaces or single-quotes, due
+     to limitations of the tools involved in the build process.
+
      If you installed some of the libraries that PSPP uses in a
      non-standard location (on many systems, anywhere other than
      /usr), you may need to provide some special flags to `configure'