Re: XCode Link Error - What does this mean?
Re: XCode Link Error - What does this mean?
- Subject: Re: XCode Link Error - What does this mean?
- From: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 19:51:10 -0300
At 15:40 -0700 02/05/08, email@hidden wrote:
>From: Marshall Clow <email@hidden>
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>Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:34:41 -0700
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>At 1:30 PM -0700 5/2/08, Rick Sustek wrote:
>>Actually, you should have to do this, Mac or no Mac!
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>I disagree. If I choose to name my file "Mom's stuff - 06/12/2008, athome", then my mac should deal with it - and most mac applications doso. Xcode is a mac application.
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>>You are dealing with UNIX tools that operate on command lines, andcommand line argument syntax follows certain rules.
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>Sadly this is true - but it should not be.
>I am not dealing with "Unix Tools", I am dealing with Xcode.
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>If Xcode is calling "Unix Tools" to do its' work, that is betweenXcode and Unix - not me; and if that causes a problem, I expect Xcodeto deal with it.
While I agree that Xcode should deal with it, and that we should be free to put spaces and whatnot into folder names... in practice it's also a good defensive move NEVER to do so.
One of the very few times in 25 years on the Mac that I lost data was when I downloaded and built an open source project that shall remain nameless, and it chanced to have an improperly quoted build script (to delete svn folders or something). Unfortunately I had put it into a folder whose name _started_ with a space, and the script merrily proceeded to rm -rf my home folder.
Xcode couldn't have prevented that, and looking closely at all scripts isn't my idea of a good time.
So, avoiding spaces in folder names is good policy.
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Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
"In the affairs of others even fools are wise
In their own business even sages err."
Weblog: http://www.brockerhoff.net/bb/viewtopic.php
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