[bug #26782] Build fails with spaces in user or group name

[Josh Kelley]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26782>

                 Summary: Build fails with spaces in user or group name
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: yehoshua
            Submitted on: Thu 11 Jun 2009 02:12:34 PM GMT
                Category: Compilation
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 0.97
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: 

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Details:

If the user or group building the software has spaces in the name (which is
common with Winbind setups that use Windows' "domain users" as the group
name), then the build fails, because it tries to grab the sixth word out of ls
-l's output to compute stage2's size.



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File Attachments:


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Date: Thu 11 Jun 2009 02:12:34 PM GMT  Name: build-with-spaces.diff  Size:
1kB   By: yehoshua
sample fix - may not be portable to all supported platforms
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=18249>

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