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Re[2]: LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS_QUOTED_1, etc.
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Re[2]: LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS_QUOTED_1, etc.


  • Subject: Re[2]: LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS_QUOTED_1, etc.
  • From: Peter Mulholland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:24:52 +0000

Hello Mike,

Friday, February 16, 2007, 9:43:58 PM, you wrote:

> It isn't the "Mac" side that has the problem, it is actually the
> "Unix" side that has the problem. Since arguments and such on command
> lines are delimited by spaces if you have a space in the file path
> then to some programs on the command line, it may be interpreted as 2
> paths and not one. I believe in early OS X 10.0 time frame there was
> an iTunes installer bug where the path was not quoted and people were
> losing their entire home directories because they had a space in the
> path somewhere. Judicious use of Quoting in unix is the only thing
> that can get you around those problems.

Or, you could escape spaces with backslashes, like
/Library/Application\ Support

This would probably be the better solution for Xcode to use.

--
Best regards,
 Peter                            mailto:email@hidden

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