[PATCH v3] env: Avoid using GNU features in awk

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Sat Nov 20 16:45:34 CET 2021


GNU has a very useful third argument to match() but this is not supported
in the POSIX awk.

Update the code to cope, so that the script is POSIX-compliant.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

Changes in v3:
- Reword commit message and comment to avoid casting aspersions

Changes in v2:
- Fix the has_var match() that had left-over test code

 scripts/env2string.awk | 23 +++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/env2string.awk b/scripts/env2string.awk
index 57d0fc8f3ba..e71c46dfb46 100644
--- a/scripts/env2string.awk
+++ b/scripts/env2string.awk
@@ -24,26 +24,33 @@ NF {
 	# Quote quotes
 	gsub("\"", "\\\"")
 
+	# Avoid using the non-POSIX third parameter to match(), by splitting
+	# the work into several steps.
+	has_var = match($0, "^([^ \t=][^ =]*)=(.*)$")
+
 	# Is this the start of a new environment variable?
-	if (match($0, "^([^ \t=][^ =]*)=(.*)$", arr)) {
+	if (has_var) {
 		if (length(env) != 0) {
 			# Record the value of the variable now completed
 			vars[var] = env
 		}
-		var = arr[1]
-		env = arr[2]
+
+		# Collect the variable name. The value follows the '='
+		match($0, "^([^ \t=][^ =]*)=")
+		var = substr($0, 1, RLENGTH - 1)
+		env = substr($0, RLENGTH + 1)
 
 		# Deal with += which concatenates the new string to the existing
-		# variable
-		if (length(env) != 0 && match(var, "^(.*)[+]$", var_arr))
-		{
+		# variable. Again we are careful to use POSIX match()
+		if (length(env) != 0 && match(var, "^(.*)[+]$")) {
+			plusname = substr(var, RSTART, RLENGTH - 1)
 			# Allow var\+=val to indicate that the variable name is
 			# var+ and this is not actually a concatenation
-			if (substr(var_arr[1], length(var_arr[1])) == "\\") {
+			if (substr(plusname, length(plusname)) == "\\") {
 				# Drop the backslash
 				sub(/\\[+]$/, "+", var)
 			} else {
-				var = var_arr[1]
+				var = plusname
 				env = vars[var] env
 			}
 		}
-- 
2.34.0.rc2.393.gf8c9666880-goog



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