[Insight-developers] Tabs in ITK build directory name causes havoc

[Brad King]

On 01/06/2011 11:03 AM, kent williams wrote:
> This might be more of a CMake problem, but I noticed it when testing a build
> directory with whitespace  in its name.
> 
> I logged it as a bug for CMake:
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11662
> 
> What happens is that for some reason the tests in the Cmake module
> TestBigEndian fail if there's a tab in the path.
> 
> If it's the case that there's a problem with tabs in paths, should we test
> for them and disallow them?

Yes, we should just disallow them.  I don't think anyone ever does that
anyway since tabs are hard to type in any shells (e.g. bash needs one
to type "Ctrl-v TAB" or "Ctrl-v Ctrl-i").

-Brad