[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/qt5base: fix build when system awk is mawk, not gawk

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Wed Dec 5 13:00:12 UTC 2018


Hello,

On Wed,  5 Dec 2018 12:02:23 +0100, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Commit c2ea056a1b (package/qt5/qt5base: use ccache for building host
> code) introduced a tweak to qt5's mkspec file, to define the compilers
> (C and C++) to use to build qmake.
> 
> In doing so, it changed the variables in that file, from this layout:
>     VAR = value
> 
> to this:
>     VAR=value
> 
> During its configuration phase, qt5 will parse that file using the
> system awk.
> 
> However, the system awk is not necessarily GNU awk; some systems,
> especially Debian ones, use mawk as the default awk implementation.
> 
> mawk does not behave the same as GNU awk, and this causes qt5 to extract
> empty values, and thus leads to build failures.
> 
> Fix that by replacing the variables with similar layout, keeping the
> spaces around the equal signs.
> 
> Fixes:
>     http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/cb5/cb555a124bb3bdb9c5a3465673c21022d94cf2ca/
> 
> Reported-by: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
> Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
> Cc: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>

Thanks a lot Yann for the research/investigation!

Best regards,

Thomas
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