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Re: Makefile for emacs throws an error when username contains spaces


On 8/19/2013 3:33 PM, Matt D. wrote:
I experienced the following error while running "make install" for
cygwin emacs:

chown: invalid user: `Matthew'

I corrected the problem by encapsulating the following variables in
quotes within Makefile and Makefile.in:

$${USERNAME}
$${USER}
$${installuser}

This is not Cygwin specific. It would apply to any system that allows user names to contain spaces. (But I don't know offhand if there are any systems other than Windows and Cygwin that allow this.) You should send this report to emacs-devel or, better, report it as an emacs bug (send mail to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org).

Ken


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