I have found that the ac_unique_file stuff in the configure scripts do not handle spaces since they are not quoted. So, I quoted them. I am including a patch to the 2.59 distro and I have submitted a patch to the autoconf project made from the current CVS sources. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a project with the auto-tools under a directory with a space in it 2. Generate the configure script 3. Run the configure script Actual Results: I lost the output, so I can not put it here. Sorry Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/include/freetype2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -I/usr/include/freetype2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage-overlays/personal" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib calendar cdr crypt cups curl dio divx4linux dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fbcon fftw flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icq imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jabber java jpeg junit kde kerberos lcms ldap libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mbox mcal mikmod mmap mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls offensive ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oscar oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl pic pie plotutils png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl shared soap sockets sox spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb vorbis wmf xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xprint xscreensaver xv yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
Created attachment 61792 [details, diff] Patch for autoconf-2.59 to fix the problem
*** Bug 96884 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
added to 2.59-r7 ... thanks
