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configure: error: 'PATH_SEPARATOR' variable not set. Can not continue. #2202

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Earnestly opened this issue Dec 29, 2017 · 0 comments
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Earnestly commented Dec 29, 2017

  • Linux 4.15.0-rc4-mainline
  • GNU Autoconf 2.69
  • GNU automake 1.15.1

When setting PATH to a single item, such as /bin the ./configure script fails as it cannot determine a PATH_SEPARATOR.

Providing either PATH=/bin:junk or manually setting PATH_SEPARATOR works around this issue.

You can reproduce this by running env -i HOME="$HOME" PATH=/bin ./configure

@bagder bagder added the build label Jan 3, 2018
bagder added a commit that referenced this issue Jan 25, 2018
The logic tries to figure out what the path separator in the $PATH
variable is, but if there's only one directory in the $PATH it
fails. This change make configure *guess* on colon instead of erroring
out, simply because that is probably the more common character.

PATH_SEPARATOR can always be set by the user to override the guessing.

(tricky bug to reproduce, as in my case for example the configure script
requires binaries in more than one directory so passing in a PATH with a
single dir fails.)

Reported-by: Earnestly on github
Fixes #2202
@bagder bagder closed this as completed in b7db284 Jan 29, 2018
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