Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] configure: disallow spaces and colons in source path and build path

[Eric Blake]

On 5/3/19 3:27 AM, Antonio Ospite wrote:
> From: Antonio Ospite <address@hidden>
> 
> The configure script breaks when the qemu source directory is in a path
> containing white spaces, in particular the list of targets is not
> correctly generated when calling "./configure --help" because of how the
> default_target_list variable is built.
> 
> In addition to that, *building* qemu from a directory with spaces breaks
> some assumptions in the Makefiles, even if the original source path does
> not contain spaces like in the case of an out-of-tree build, or when
> symlinks are involved.
> 
> To avoid these issues, refuse to run the configure script and the
> Makefile if there are spaces or colons in the source path or the build
> path, taking as inspiration what the kbuild system in linux does.
> 
> Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1817345
> 
> Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <address@hidden>
> ---
>  Makefile  | 4 ++++
>  configure | 6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 

> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
>  # Makefile for QEMU.
>  
> +ifneq ($(words $(subst :, ,$(CURDIR))), 1)
> +  $(error main directory cannot contain spaces nor colons)
> +endif
> +
>  # Always point to the root of the build tree (needs GNU make).
>  BUILD_DIR=$(CURDIR)
>  
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 9832cbca5c..f7ad4381bd 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -279,6 +279,12 @@ ld_has() {
>  # make source path absolute
>  source_path=$(cd "$(dirname -- "$0")"; pwd)
>  
> +if printf "%s\n" "$source_path" | grep -q "[[:space:]:]" ||
> +  printf "%s\n" "$PWD" | grep -q "[[:space:]:]";

For less typing and fewer processes, you could shorten this to:

if printf %s\\n "$source_path" "$PWD" | grep -q "[[:space:]:]";

but that's trivial enough for a maintainer to fold in if desired.

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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