FYI, Vista has no directory with spaces in them.  "Document and Settings" is User, My Document is Document etc.  I got 
bitten by the space under XP but not under Vista.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Bott [mailto:community-noreply@qnx.com]
> Sent: January-07-09 11:54 AM
> To: general-ide
> Subject: whitespace in path names
> 
> It is quite common, especially on Windows, for commonly-used
> directories to have spaces in them e.g. 'My Documents'. I realize that
> gcc etc. does not support these well,, but I quite often find customers
> using these directories, and then finding that things don't work
> correctly.
> 
> I'm not expecting us to change gcc, but can we add code to check for
> this e.g. in the 'add a library or include path' code, we must be able
> to parse it and see the white space and display an appropriate message
> ?
> 
> It's very confusing for newbies, especially as Eclipse happily shows
> them the files in the directory, so it *looks* like it knows where
> their include files are, but can't build with them...
> 
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