From 9612c9ab2074ad8187b505d53682babc209a3ddd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Hahn <flo@fhahn.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:06:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Abort configure if source path contains spaces, closes #18477

---
 configure | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4fb6cb53bd8..4ce8c3c48a4 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -541,6 +541,16 @@ CFG_BUILD_DIR="$(pwd)/"
 CFG_SELF="$0"
 CFG_CONFIGURE_ARGS="$@"
 
+
+case "${CFG_SRC_DIR}" in  
+    *\ * )
+        err "The path to the rust source directory contains spaces, which is not supported"
+        ;;
+    *)
+        ;;
+esac
+
+
 OPTIONS=""
 HELP=0
 if [ "$1" = "--help" ]