Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] MAKEDIR NSIS packaging issue with Wireshark 1.10.8
From: Graham Bloice <graham.bloice@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:18:37 +0100
On 24 June 2014 14:07, Ben Burwell <bburwell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

When trying to create a package using NSIS, I've run into an issue where $MAKEDIR contains spaces (C:\Program Files (x86)\...), which does not seem to be handled correctly.

I've found this bug report, which is nearly two years old: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7870

For example (from the bug report):

#nmake -f Makefile.nmake
......
"C:\Program Files\NSIS\makensis.exe"  /DPROGRAM_NAME=wireshark /DMAKEDIR=C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\test\wireshark\packaging\nsis
......
Command line defined: "PROGRAM_NAME=wireshark"
Command line defined: "MAKEDIR=C:\Documents"
......
Can't open script "and"
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\NSIS\makensis.exe"' : return code'0x1'Stop.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2' Stop.
......

>From what I can see, this is still open and present in releases, though a patch has been submitted in the bug report.

I was unable to find anything related in Gerrit. Does the patch attached in the bug report just need to be submitted on Gerrit?

Submitting the patch equivalent to Gerrit is the way forward.  Remember to add the bug number in the footer of the commit message "Bug: 7870".

It would appear that almost everyone else using Windows is compiling Wireshark in a directory without spaces, but I don't see a problem in adding the proposed change.

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Graham Bloice