>>>>> Malcolm Purvis wrote:

> Back in 2006, Chris Shenton reported a bug in configure when the
> installation path contains a space:

> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62483

> In response Katsumi Yamaoka posted an improved patch:

> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62487

> For some reason this patch hasn't been applied, but the bug is still
> present, and bit me recently.  Would it be possible to have this patch
> applied?

> Katsumi Yamaoka's patch is:

I realized that that was totally insufficient to solve the problem.
Could you try the attached patch and the configure script?

Please never run the older version of autoconf, e.g. v2.59.  You'd
better copy the attached configure script, and perform `chmod +x'
and `touch' on it (so as to make it newer than aclocal.m4 and
configure.in).