Re: Fix for file names with spaces

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: 05 October 2005 16:31
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Bruce Momjian; PostgreSQL-patches
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Fix for file names with spaces
>
> "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> >> Why does this patch convert '\' to '\\' and not to '/' ?
>
> > Because support on Windows for / is somewhat inconsistent
> outside of the
> > Msys shell.
>
> Do we care about that for the purposes that pg_config will be
> used for?
> It seems more likely to me that emitting \\ will break things
> than that
> it will help.  In particular, we know that the former behavior worked
> fine modulo the pathnames-with-spaces problem.

Well it makes no difference to me, but will might well make pg_config
useless for anyone trying to use it as part of a non-msys/cygwin based
build environment for their projects. I don't know how likely that is
though - certainly I don't try to do anything like that in my own VC++
projects, but then all of those predate 8.0 anyway.

Regards, Dave.