Installation fails under path with whitespaces

[nazar-pc]

Bug Report

Your environment

• mediasoup version: 3.9.4

Issue description

When installed under directory whose path has whitespaces, installation fails, see https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/mediasoup-installation-issue-ubuntu-20-04-node-16-13-1-pip-21-3-1-python-3-8-10/3804, we need to fix that.

[ibc]

Is this a bug in our code or in some underlying lib or build system?

[nazar-pc]

I believe some paths need to be taken into quotes in the Makefile, didn't dig into details yet, so it is all on our side.

[techhjork]

Creating Mediasoup Files in using other other local disk space in Dual Boot

Basically i am on Dual boot and using other local disk space 'Volume/Backend/mediasoup/mediasoup-3'
so maybe thats why i was facing that issue that time

But as @nazar-pc said for changing directory
i clone that repo. in Desktop and same process and issue resolved but getting some warning

Link of warning of C in Mediasoup Discourse

hope Mediasoup Team will fix these also

And Thanks for this helping Community

i will ask more Questions in future

[CosmosisT]

The whitespace is a feature I thought?

[ibc]

When installed under directory whose path has whitespaces, installation fails, see https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/mediasoup-installation-issue-ubuntu-20-04-node-16-13-1-pip-21-3-1-python-3-8-10/3804

@nazar-pc the linked post doesn't seem related to having white spaces in the installation path, do I miss something?

[nazar-pc]

It does, see, target is /media/tech/New Volume/Backend/mediasoup/mediasoup-3/worker/out/pip, then you see "invalid requirement", which is suspiciously the part of the path after whitespace:

ERROR: Invalid requirement: 'Volume/Backend/mediasoup/mediasoup-3/worker/out/pip'

[ibc]

I've tried everything and this is hell. Not even sure there is a fix, and impossible to fix it in all OS.

So I've fixed this issue another way:

[nazar-pc]

I'm sure there is a fix, but not sure we want it in the codebase. Not supporting whitespaces is certainly one way to "fix" it 😂

[ibc]

Searching for "Makefile whitespaces" is just maddening. I just gave up. Add I love the fix 😅

[RamanSB]

I would not say this issue has been resolved. I had a whitespace in my Filepath and it didn't work, when the whitespace was removed - it worked.

[ibc]

Yes. As explained in comments above we gave up. And we documented that the installation path cannot have white spaces. PRs are welcome, we don't know how to fix that.

[ibc]

This is probably fixed in PR #1239 in commit c7720f2.