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Testing node gives an error when the path has whitespace in it. #11713
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- Version: 7.5.0
- Platform: Darwin wlan-145-94-175-116.wlan.tudelft.nl 14.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.3.0: Mon Mar 23 11:59:05 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2782.20.48~5/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
- Subsystem: test
After making some changes and wanting to test it, like it says here in step 5, I got the following error: error: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../%.c'.
It turns out that if the path has any whitespace in it, the test won't work on OS X Yosemite.
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[-]Testing node gives error when path has whitespace in it.[/-][+]Testing node gives an error when the path has whitespace in it.[/+]liusy182 commentedon Mar 8, 2017
It looks like this is because
makecannot handle space in path, specifically in variable$(srcdir)in node context. There is a bug describes this behavior.addaleax commentedon Apr 29, 2017
Yeah, building virtually any software project that uses Make or shell scripts somewhere will fail to build properly when paths contain spaces. It’s unfortunate, but it require a lot of work to get this right, and far too much of that would have to be done in the build systems, so mostly the issue is outside of Node’s own scope.
So, I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful, but I don’t think there’s much to do here other than close this as “can’t fix it”. Feel free to ask if you have any follow-up questions, though. :)