[Buildroot] [git commit] support/dependencies: check that PATH does not contain CWD

[Thomas Petazzoni]

commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=72703d02b96bb1f7f94f705d3a7199599b1bc980
branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

A person on IRC reported a build failure with the util-linux package,
looking like this:

for I in uname26 linux32 linux64        ; do \
	cd /home/aep/consulting/chargery/tracker/output/target/usr/bin && ln -sf setarch $I ; \
done
[...]
/bin/sh: line 1: ./ln: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
/bin/sh: line 1: ./ln: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
/bin/sh: line 1: ./ln: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

The issue was an empty path in the PATH variable, which means "current
working directory", causing a "ln" binary built by util-linux for the
target to be used instead of the system-provided "ln".

We already check a number of things in the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
variables in support/dependencies/dependencies.sh, but we were not
checking that PATH did not contain an empty path.

This commit fixes that and takes this opportunity to simplify the test
code for PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
[Thomas: improve commit log.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
---
 support/dependencies/dependencies.sh | 59 ++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

diff --git a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
index 985b1d863b..f98678973b 100755
--- a/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
+++ b/support/dependencies/dependencies.sh
@@ -11,27 +11,30 @@ if test $? != 0 ; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-# sanity check for CWD in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
-# try not to rely on egrep..
-if test -n "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ; then
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep '::' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep ':\.:' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep 'TRiGGER_start:' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep 'TRiGGER_start\.:' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep ':TRiGGER_end' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep ':\.TRiGGER_end' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep 'TRiGGER_start\.TRiGGER_end' >/dev/null 2>&1
-	if test $? = 0; then
-		echo
-		echo "You seem to have the current working directory in your"
-		echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. This doesn't work."
-		exit 1;
-	fi
-fi;
+# Sanity check for CWD in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+case ":${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:-unset}:" in
+(*::*|*:.:*)
+	echo
+	echo "You seem to have the current working directory in your"
+	echo "LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. This doesn't work."
+	exit 1
+	;;
+esac
 
-# PATH should not contain a newline, otherwise it fails in spectacular ways
-# as soon as PATH is referenced in a package rule
-case "${PATH}" in
+# Sanity check for CWD in PATH. Having the current working directory
+# in the PATH makes various packages (e.g. toolchain, coreutils...)
+# build process break.
+# PATH should not contain a newline, otherwise it fails in spectacular
+# ways as soon as PATH is referenced in a package rule
+# An empty PATH is technically possible, but in practice we would not
+# even arrive here if that was the case.
+case ":${PATH:-unset}:" in
+(*::*|*:.:*)
+	echo
+	echo "You seem to have the current working directory in your"
+	echo "PATH environment variable. This doesn't work."
+	exit 1
+	;;
 (*"
 "*)	printf "\n"
 	# Break the '\n' sequence, or a \n is printed (which is not what we want).
@@ -41,22 +44,6 @@ case "${PATH}" in
 	;;
 esac
 
-# sanity check for CWD in PATH. Having the current working directory
-# in the PATH makes the toolchain build process break.
-# try not to rely on egrep..
-if test -n "$PATH" ; then
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep ':\.:' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep 'TRiGGER_start\.:' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep ':\.TRiGGER_end' >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-	echo TRiGGER_start"$PATH"TRiGGER_end | grep 'TRiGGER_start\.TRiGGER_end' >/dev/null 2>&1
-	if test $? = 0; then
-		echo
-		echo "You seem to have the current working directory in your"
-		echo "PATH environment variable. This doesn't work."
-		exit 1;
-	fi
-fi;
-
 if test -n "$PERL_MM_OPT" ; then
 	echo
 	echo "You have PERL_MM_OPT defined because Perl local::lib"