Makefile for emacs throws an error when username contains spaces

Matt D. matt@codespunk.com
Mon Aug 19 19:33:00 GMT 2013


I experienced the following error while running "make install" for 
cygwin emacs:

chown: invalid user: `Matthew'

I corrected the problem by encapsulating the following variables in 
quotes within Makefile and Makefile.in:

$${USERNAME}
$${USER}
$${installuser}


Matt D.

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