[MacPorts] #25760: icu pkgdata fails to backslash space in path

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#25760: icu pkgdata fails to backslash space in path
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 Reporter:  hteo@…          |       Owner:  macports-tickets@…                   
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal          |   Milestone:                                       
Component:  ports           |     Version:  1.9.1                                
 Keywords:                  |        Port:  icu                                  
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Comment(by hteo@…):

 Replying to [comment:1 ryandesign@…]:
 > Replying to [ticket:25760 hteo@…]:
 > > My macports working directory resides on a second harddisk
 >
 > How was this accomplished?
 >
 > We certainly don't support the MacPorts prefix containing a space; the
 problem you're experiencing may be an extension of that.

 I created a directory /Volumes/Secondary HD/macports, and soft-linked it
 to /opt/local/var/macports.

 I did this because my primary boot drive is an SSD. So while the /opt tree
 still resides on the boot drive, I wanted to keep macports's working
 directory off the SSD onto the secondary drive.

 I understand that it's possible that this may be a generic issue, but I
 singled out the icu port because of all the ports that I have installed,
 only 2 so far has this problem (R and texlive). Both used icu, and both
 encountered compilation errors in the icu part of the code and not
 anywhere else in the code. So I thought it may be specific to icu. After
 some debugging, I thought it's a path problem related to pkgdata.

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