[issue4508] distutils compiler not handling spaces in path to output/src files

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> Ok, I found a similar problem with MMTK.
I don’t know what that is.

> I am currently altering my distutils package to add a function called nt_quote_dir
> that adds quotes to paths with spaces and then applies it to each path if the platform
> is win32.
You shouldn’t have to do that; there’s already a similar function in distutils.spawn.

> When I'm done I will submit a diff after confirming that it works.
What is needed is a diff for distutils 2.7 or 3.2 adding a test with a file containing a space.  I can’t do anything with diffs for other projects.

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versions: +Python 3.3 -Python 3.1

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