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

[Frank Mehnert]

On Saturday 20 January 2007 17:38, Frank Mehnert wrote:
> Hi Georgi,
>
> On Saturday 20 January 2007 17:03, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > 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!"
>
> Thx for that report! Fixed.

Sorry for reporting that twice, a typical race condition :)

Kind regards,

Frank
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