Unsafe directory

Regis Perdreau regis.perdreau at gmail.com
Thu Jul 13 09:11:55 UTC 2023


Hi Colomban,

I have set HOME to /tmp/mydir, it works.
Tks a lot.

Régis Perdreau



Le jeu. 13 juil. 2023 à 11:18, Colomban Wendling <cwendling at hypra.fr> a
écrit :

> Hello Régis,
>
> Le 13/07/2023 à 09:00, Regis Perdreau a écrit :
> > I'm trying to build master under Windows 11/cygwin.
> > Build failed with the message "autogen.sh: unsafe home directory:
> > `/home/Régis Perdreau"
>
> I'm not knowledgeable about Windows/CygWin, but I have two wild guesses:
> - the directory name contains non-ASCII characters ("é")
> - the directory name contains a space
>
> If it's anything like gnupg, it's likely the space (see the hardly
> readable check in https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/blob/master/autogen.sh#L127
> )
>
> You probably can work around this by either actually changing CygWin's
> homedir, or just adjust $HOME to point to some directory without those
> characters (e.g. HOME=/tmp/homedir, or anything less temporary yet still
> without spaces).
>
> HTH
> - Colomban
>
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