make install issue when prefix contains a "+"

[Derek Atkins]

Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch at web.de> writes:

>> I agree - if this is a bug, it will be one in the context of gconf, but
>> surely not gnucash. However, I think the reason for the "bug" is that gconf
>> has additional constraints on the installation location. A "+" character in
>> the filename can very well fall into that category - just as the win32
>> filesystems disallow quite a number of additional characters which "seem
>> allowed" on unix filesystem. I'd say we just have to accept gconf doesn't
>> allow the "+" character in filenames and that's it.
>
> Is that something configure in gnucash should check easily?

Could it check?  Yes.
Should it check?  Arguable.

Send in a patch to configure.  :)

> Thanks,
> Rainer

-derek
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