Make a note about `illegal' chars in pathnames.
Suggested-by: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c97fc80..6207deb 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -65,6 +65,24 @@
Compiling LTP
-------------------
+"What's in a Path?"
+-------------------
+
+Before getting started, you should make sure that your build directory and
+source directory are as basic as possible: no commas, colons, semicolons,
+spaces, etc. In fact, this is a relatively good rule of thumb when dealing
+with any [Gnu?] make based opensource project.
+
+We won't `fix' the `issues' associated with these particular set of build
+errors resulting from non-sane pathnames, because it would introduce unneeded
+complexity into the build system and would require non-trivial effort to fix
+and validate the third-party packages, and thus wouldn't be a sustainable
+model to follow.
+
+So, we apologize for the inconvenience, but using other characters like
+underscores and dashes should help when disambiguating words between build
+and source pathnames.
+
In-build-tree
-------------------
In-build-tree support is when you build binaries (applications, binary objects)