[vbox-dev] Erroneous "Error: VBox base path contains invalid characters!"

[Georgi Georgiev]

I got the "Error: VBox base path contains invalid characters!" message
which apparently was erroneously triggered by hyphens in the path.

According grep(1)

  Finally, to include a literal - place it last.

but the hyphen in the grep expression is not last in the configure
script of virtualbox.

The following patch fixes the problem:

--- configure   2007-01-21 00:59:12.000000000 +0900
+++ configure   2007-01-21 00:47:00.000000000 +0900
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 ENV="env.sh"
 BUILD_TYPE="release"
 ## todo: These are the chars that ar can deal with in mri mode: [A-Za-z0-9/\\$:.\-\_]
-INVALID_CHARS="[^A-Za-z0-9/\\$:.\-_]"
+INVALID_CHARS="[^A-Za-z0-9/\\$:._-]"
 
 if (cd $(dirname $0); pwd)|grep -q "$INVALID_CHARS"; then
   echo "Error: VBox base path contains invalid characters!"


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