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Build fails with MSB3073 if there are spaces in the path

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#13,740 opened on Nov 5, 2019

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Priority:2area-ILTools-coreclrhelp wantedin-pr

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OS: Windows 10 Head: 46bc2ab4d

If you clone the repository to a directory that has spaces in the path, the build will fail 5-15 minutes in with error code MSB3073: The command "ilasm..." exited with code 9009.

A few lines before that it actually says Could not find a part of the path ... with the full path truncated at the occurrence of the whitespace.

It seems this issue was also reported almost 4 years ago in dotnet/corefx#451 and seemingly fixed but I can reproduce it on the latest master as of the time of writing.

At the very least, it would be nice to mention this in the installation instructions.

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Inspect the build scripts (MSBuild targets or batch files) that invoke ilasm. Look for missing double quotes around path variables. Ensure all path references are properly quoted to handle spaces. Test by cloning the repo to a path with spaces and running the build.
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