Alpine bindists installation breaks if the prefix contains "xxx"
Summary
When the Alpine bindists (tested with 8.10.2 and 9.2.2) are configured to have a --prefix
containing xxx
anywhere in the path, the installation will fail while trying to access paths that curiously contain 3 spaces instead of xxx
.
This is because of the following snippet from its Makefile
where xxx
is used to temporarily sanitize three spaces:
PKG_CONFS = $(shell find "$(ActualLibsDir)/package.conf.d" -name '*.conf' | sed 's: :xxx:g')
update_package_db: install_bin install_lib
@echo "$(PKG_CONFS)"
@echo "Updating the package DB"
$(foreach p, $(PKG_CONFS),\
$(call patchpackageconf,$(shell echo $(notdir $p) | sed 's/-\([0-9]*[0-9]\.\)*conf//g'),$(shell echo "$p" | sed 's:xxx: :g'),$(docdir),$(shell mk/relpath.s
h "$(ActualLibsDir)" "$(docdir)")))
'$(WrapperBinsDir)/$(CrossCompilePrefix)ghc-pkg' recache
Steps to reproduce
Use an Alpine bindist for either 8.10.2 or 9.2.2 (others likely also work) and select a prefix containing xxx
for configure
, then install.
Expected behavior
The installation works normally. Having xxx
in prefix is rare, but can happen for Nix since x
is part of the alphabet used for Nix's base32 hashes.
Environment
- GHC version used: 9.2.2, 8.10.2
Optional:
- Operating System: NixOS
- System Architecture: x86_64-linux