[petsc-dev] Fwd: cmake issue

[Barry Smith]

On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 17:27, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Why doesn't cmake "just work" with this CC="gcc -m32"?
> 
> Because the constructed command is
> 
> "gcc -m32" "-other_flags" "/and/paths with/spaces.c"
> 
> The quotes cannot be removed in the general case.

  I see. Damn to hell the first person who decided spaces in paths was a good idea.

   Barry