0000938: configure script cannot execute successfully when parent directory name contains white space.

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0000938

OMNeT++

Installer / Productizing

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2015-10-23 21:31

2016-02-04 12:56

Reporter

whatever2

Assigned To

rhornig

Priority

normal

Severity

major

Reproducibility

always

Status

resolved

Resolution

won't fix

Platform

Linux

Elementary OS/ Ubuntu

OS Version

3.16.0-51-generi

Product Version

4.6

Target Version

Fixed in Version

5.0

Summary

0000938: configure script cannot execute successfully when parent directory name contains white space.

Description

"configure" script cannot execute successfully, if parent directory name contains white space(s). As you can see this might have serious implications:
"
...
./configure: line 7813: test: too many arguments
chmod: cannot access '/home/user/foobar/dir': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access 'has': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access 'blanks/omnetpp-4.6/bin/__probe__': No such file or directory
...
rm: cannot remove '/home/user/foobar/dir': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'has': No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'blanks/omnetpp-4.6/bin/__probe__': No such file or directory
"

Steps To Reproduce

Extract omnetpp-4.6 to directory "~/dir has blanks/". Then execute:
$ cd "~/dir has blanks/"
$ . setenv
$ ./configure

Additional Information

From a quick look into the "configure" script, I think this might be caused by some missing quotation mark all over the place. E.g.
(line 7819) chmod +x $omnetpp_bin_dir/$probefile

Fixing THIS LINE...
(line 7819) chmod +x "$omnetpp_bin_dir/$probefile"

...corrects THAT PART of the issue. From what I've seen there needs to be a serious overhaul of that script in terms of correctly quoted variables.

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(0001151) whatever2 (reporter) 2015-10-26 11:36	Sorry, messed up the platform, os, ... part. Platform is x86_64 and Elementary Os is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

(0001162) rhornig (administrator) 2016-02-04 12:56	Unfortunately, this is a known (and documented) limitation of the build system we are using. This may fixed once/if we move to cmake build.

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2015-10-23 21:31	whatever2	New Issue
2015-10-26 11:36	whatever2	Note Added: 0001151
2016-02-04 12:56	rhornig	Note Added: 0001162
2016-02-04 12:56	rhornig	Status	new => resolved
2016-02-04 12:56	rhornig	Fixed in Version	=> 5.0
2016-02-04 12:56	rhornig	Resolution	open => won't fix
2016-02-04 12:56	rhornig	Assigned To	=> rhornig