allow spaces in the path to srcdir
taken from https://packages.debian.org/sid/ecl
$ cat harden-configure.patch
Description: Make configure work even when the current directory contains spaces
Author: Christoph Egger <christoph@debian.org>
Forwarded: NA
--- ecl.orig/configure
+++ ecl/configure
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#else
# srcdir=`pwd`/src
#fi
-srcdir=`pwd`/src
+srcdir="`pwd`/src"
[ "x$buildir" = "x" ] && buildir=build
export buildir
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@
fi
cd ${buildir}
-${srcdir}/configure --srcdir=${srcdir} "$@"
+"${srcdir}/configure" --srcdir="${srcdir}" $*
echo Configuration complete. To build ECL, issue 'make' in this directory.