#23456: use_dmg yes fails when worksrcdir contains a space -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Reporter: ryandesign@… | Owner: ryandesign@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: MacPorts 1.8.3 Component: base | Version: 1.8.2 Keywords: | Port: -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Comment(by raimue@…): All options take lists as input. The problem is that Tcl splits the build.args in bzip2 in an unintended way. See this example in tclsh: {{{ % foreach i {FOO="foo bar" baz} { puts $i } FOO="foo bar" baz % foreach i {FOO="foo bar" "baz"} { puts $i } FOO="foo bar" baz }}} Note that quotes around single list items are not preserved as they are only necessary to separate the list items. The code in `command_string` assembles a string from this format by converting each item to a string and then using string concatenation. List concatenation will not give the desired result. It is also not possible to pass quoted arguments from a Portfile as `handle_option` will silently remove the quotes at the time of assignment. You would have to escape the quotes in this case. Which leads to the solution to your initial problem. In order to pass the directories quoted, escape the quotes around such list items. I will attach a new patch which adds another level of backslashes. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/23456#comment:3> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS