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authorKaren Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com>2019-11-28 19:07:59 +0300
committerKaren Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com>2019-11-29 17:28:28 +0300
commit5a54c4a7c0dc73174b0f884d46ebaaacb9d551c3 (patch)
tree8dfef86eb849cdf7140ff77eeef18f72613ac176 /libbuild2/version/snapshot-git.cxx
parent0da5ad389d0460ff0cca15fbcb11faef35a52e7a (diff)
Fix bundled git running other git as a child on Windows
Diffstat (limited to 'libbuild2/version/snapshot-git.cxx')
-rw-r--r--libbuild2/version/snapshot-git.cxx59
1 files changed, 50 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/libbuild2/version/snapshot-git.cxx b/libbuild2/version/snapshot-git.cxx
index b7ca084..7dcb1f3 100644
--- a/libbuild2/version/snapshot-git.cxx
+++ b/libbuild2/version/snapshot-git.cxx
@@ -21,6 +21,41 @@ namespace build2
snapshot r;
const char* d (src_root.string ().c_str ());
+ // On startup git prepends the PATH environment variable value with the
+ // computed directory path where its sub-programs are supposedly located
+ // (--exec-path option, GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable, etc; see
+ // cmd_main() in git's git.c for details).
+ //
+ // Then, when git needs to run itself or one of its components as a
+ // child process, it resolves the full executable path searching in
+ // directories listed in PATH (see locate_in_PATH() in git's
+ // run-command.c for details).
+ //
+ // On Windows we install git and its components into a place where it is
+ // not expected to be, which results in the wrong path in PATH as set by
+ // git (for example, c:/build2/libexec/git-core) which in turn may lead
+ // to running some other git that appear in the PATH variable. To
+ // prevent this we pass the git's exec directory via the --exec-path
+ // option explicitly.
+ //
+ path p ("git");
+ process_path pp (run_search (p, true /* init */));
+
+#ifdef _WIN32
+ string ep ("--exec-path=" + pp.effect.directory ().string ());
+#endif
+
+ size_t args_i (3); // First reserved.
+ const char* args[] {
+ pp.recall_string (),
+#ifdef _WIN32
+ (++args_i, ep.c_str ()),
+#endif
+ "-C",
+ d,
+ nullptr, nullptr, nullptr, // Reserve.
+ nullptr};
+
// First check whether the working directory is clean. There doesn't
// seem to be a way to do everything in a single invocation (the
// porcelain v2 gives us the commit id but not timestamp).
@@ -29,13 +64,15 @@ namespace build2
// If git status --porcelain returns anything, then the working
// directory is not clean.
//
- {
- const char* args[] {"git", "-C", d, "status", "--porcelain", nullptr};
- r.committed = run<string> (
- 3 /* verbosity */,
- args,
- [](string& s, bool) {return move (s);}).empty ();
- }
+ args[args_i ] = "status";
+ args[args_i + 1] = "--porcelain";
+ args[args_i + 2] = nullptr;
+
+ r.committed = run<string> (
+ 3 /* verbosity */,
+ pp,
+ args,
+ [](string& s, bool) {return move (s);}).empty ();
// Now extract the commit id and date. One might think that would be
// easy... Commit id is a SHA1 hash of the commit object. And commit
@@ -61,9 +98,13 @@ namespace build2
//
string data;
- const char* args[] {
- "git", "-C", d, "cat-file", "commit", "HEAD", nullptr};
+ args[args_i ] = "cat-file";
+ args[args_i + 1] = "commit";
+ args[args_i + 2] = "HEAD";
+ args[args_i + 3] = nullptr;
+
process pr (run_start (3 /* verbosity */,
+ pp,
args,
0 /* stdin */,
-1 /* stdout */,