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 -- ## InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de ##
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