Re: Our build system may be broken: /bin vs /usr/bin
Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> writes:
>
> Most packages which are affected by this issue I've seen so far search
> for the binaries in $PATH and encode the full path of the first find.
> Since PATH is typically set to something like
>
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
>
> the first find will be /usr/bin/sed on a merged-/usr system.
> I suspect if you had a locally installed sed in /usr/local/bin, your
> package would encode that as full path, i.e. would be misbuilt.
> In the end it's a bug in your package which should be fixed there.
>
> As Marco said, the obvious and simplest approach is to nail down the
> paths during build to a path that is known to work everywhere, i.e. in
> your case /bin/sed.
> A more elaborate fix would be, to not use any hard-coded paths.
For scripts this conflicts with the requirement/suggestion to hardcode
the shebang line. I don't know a good general solution, it seems to
require ad hoc extra configuration to fix interpreter paths at build
time (i.e. upstream build system cannot really expect to find
interpreter paths if we move them between build and execution).
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