Adding to building info on space in windows directories

[Erik Joelsson]

I agree this would be useful and filed 
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8259485

/Erik

On 2021-01-07 21:35, - wrote:
> Hello,
> This is a followup of
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2021-January/029905.html.
>
> In that thread, my build on Windows 10 (not WSL) failed because Windows did
> not short path some directories with space in it, such as "Microsoft Visual
> Studio" or "Microsoft SDKs", while fixpath.sh expects Windows to do so.
> This can be resolved by using fsutil to create short paths for them.
>
> A direct consequence is that configure emits an uninformative message of
> "Cannot find a valid Visual Studio installation" because all the paths it
> received from fixpath.sh is "".
>
> I believe it would be helpful if we add information on this problem in the
> building instructions. Would anyone support this idea and possibly create a
> ticket on openjdk bug tracker?
>
> Best,
> liangchenblue at gmail.com