If you start discarding software which has problems with a space in a directory name, you should start with libtool, at which point you can't build significant

If you start discarding software which has problems with a space in a directory name, you should start with libtool, at which point you can't build significant chunks of the Linux ecosystem. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193163 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=193163 I hit this when trying to test libgmp (as an example of an important library you would lose). This means in practice you can't really build most software which uses configure scripts and libraries in a directory with a space -- this may well be what they are hitting.