id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,port 25760,icu pkgdata fails to backslash space in path,hteo@…,macports-tickets@…,"Not sure if this is a macports problem or upstream problem. My macports working directory resides on a second harddisk, mounted on ""/Volumes/Secondary HD"". Notice the space in the path. For some reason, pkgdata fails to backslash the space. So for example, {{{ ## Makefile for icudt38l created by pkgdata ## from ICU Version 3.8.1 SRCDIR=/Volumes/Secondary HD/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_tex_texlive-bin/work/texlive-20091107-source/libs/icu/icu-build/data/out/build/icudt38l }}} So when I compile say R, which uses icu, I encounter compile error in the libs/icu/icu-build directory, like the following: {{{ DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=../stubdata:../lib:../tools/ctestfw:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH MAKEFLAGS= ../bin/pkgdata -O ../data/icupkg.inc -q -c -s /Volumes/Secondary HD/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_tex_texlive-bin/work/texlive-20091107-source/libs/icu/icu-build/data/out/build/icudt38l -d ../lib -M'PKGDATA_LDFLAGS=""""' -e icudt38 -T ./out/tmp -p icudt38l -L sicudata -m static ""./out/tmp/icudata.lst"" Error opening . error loading input file lists: U_FILE_ACCESS_ERROR make: *** [packagedata] Error 2 }}}",defect,closed,Normal,,ports,1.9.1,fixed,,srl@…,icu