RFR: JDK-8136764 ORIGINAL_PATH is broken if PATH contains directory with "#" in it's name
Tim Bell
tim.bell at oracle.com
Fri Sep 18 16:31:03 UTC 2015
Hello Magnus:
> If the PATH contains a directory with a # in it's name, we will store
> ORIGINAL_PATH=...#... in spec.gmk.
>
> However, this will result in make cutting the line at #, believing the
> rest to be a comment.
>
> Unfortunately, having directories named # is not so esoteric it at
> first seems, since Microsoft Visual Studio typically adds it's F#
> implementation to the PATH. :-(
Too bad.
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8136764
> WebRev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8136764-escape-hash-in-ORIGINAL_PATH/webrev.01
Looks good to me.
Hopefully the issue will stay fixed this time. The previous attempt was
in JDK-8009315.
Tim
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