[Glade-users] Pathname bug in glade

Damon Chaplin damon@ximian.com
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 13:59:45 -0400


"Felix E. Klee" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> as mentioned in my earlier post "Build Source Code for C++ Projects",
> when I click the Build button in glade in order to create the sources
> with glade--, I get the error message
> 
>   Error running glade-- to generate the C++ source code.
>   Check that you have glade-- installed and that it is in your PATH.
> 
> I finally figured out that this only happens to projects which reside in
> directories that have spaces in their names. For example if I click
> build for a project "/home/felix/test project/sample.glade", I get the
> error message, and after renaming "test project" to "test_project" the
> error message dissappears. However, calling "glade-- sample.glade"
> manually works in both cases and produces valid C++ code.
> 
> Is this a bug in glade or am I doing something wrong?

It looks like a bug in Glade. It doesn't quote the filename when calling
system(). In glade_project.c it does this:

  command_buffer = g_strdup_printf ("glade-- %s",
project->xml_filename);

when it should do something like:

  command_buffer = g_strdup_printf ("glade-- '%s'",
project->xml_filename);


Thanks for the report.

Damon