From efc3b4e52a46f5e9d233ef698c99a9caf1d1d39c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bo Peng <bpeng@lyx.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:55:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] lib/configure.py: fix checkTeXAllowSpaces, by Enrico

git-svn-id: svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk@14336 a592a061-630c-0410-9148-cb99ea01b6c8
---
 lib/configure.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/configure.py b/lib/configure.py
index cf4ee79588..2aea8c017a 100644
--- a/lib/configure.py
+++ b/lib/configure.py
@@ -640,8 +640,12 @@ def checkTeXAllowSpaces():
     tex_allows_spaces = 'false'
     if lyx_check_config:
         print "Checking whether TeX allows spaces in file names... ",
-        writeToFile('a b.tex', r'\nonstopmode\message{working^^J}' )
-        if ''.join(cmdOutput(LATEX + ' "a b"')).find('working') != -1:
+        writeToFile('a b.tex', r'\message{working^^J}' )
+        if os.name == 'nt':
+            latex_out = cmdOutput(LATEX + r""" "\nonstopmode\input{\"a b\"}" """)
+        else:
+            latex_out = cmdOutput(LATEX + r""" '\nonstopmode\input{"a b"}' """)
+        if 'working' in latex_out:
             print 'yes'
             tex_allows_spaces = 'true'
         else: