Re: Installing Perl v24 does not work!

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/Users/michael.bunnemeyer/Downloads/perl-5.24\ 5.0/installperl

Installing into/from a path with a space in it is not supported.

update: cross-posted to The Perl5 Porters Mailing List

perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'

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Re^2: Installing Perl v24 does not work! by soonix (Chancellor) on Jan 17, 2017 at 16:16 UTC
In that case, he might try `dir /x` to find out the "spaceless" (8.3) name of that path. From my experiments ISTR that using `C:\PROGRA~1` and `C:\PROGRA~2` (instead of `Program Files` and `Program Files (x86)`) did work on Windows 7 and is likely to work on 8 and 10…	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Installing Perl v24 does not work! by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 17, 2017 at 16:42 UTC
The OP is on a Mac, not Windows. They just need to rename `perl-5.24 5.0` to `perl-5.24_5.0`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Installing Perl v24 does not work! by soonix (Chancellor) on Jan 17, 2017 at 16:49 UTC
Aaahhh! The "/Users/full.name/Downloads" part made me overlook the "darwin" and the missing "C:"...	[reply]
Re^2: Installing Perl v24 does not work! by Anonymous Monk on Jan 18, 2017 at 00:06 UTC
Since when is this not supported?	[reply]
Re^3: Installing Perl v24 does not work! by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 18, 2017 at 08:03 UTC
It was never supported and I remember some problems when configuring and building Perl in a directory with spaces in it. Ideally, the build process would be able to deal with whitespace in file and directory names, but at least up to 5.16 this was problematic and I haven't investigated it since. Update: At least Tony Cook agrees with me.	[reply]

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