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Use symbolic links in /tmp to fix "path name spaces problem" #444

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Use symbolic links in /tmp to fix "path name spaces problem" #444

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Use symbolic links in /tmp to get around path names that contain spac…
Jul 23, 2021
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Changed to using mktemp to create file names for the symlinks in /tmp
Jul 23, 2021
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17 changes: 14 additions & 3 deletions bin/genn-buildmodel.sh
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Expand Up @@ -52,13 +52,20 @@ done
if [[ -z "$MODEL" ]]; then
genn_error $LINENO 2 "no model file given"
fi
pushd $OUT_PATH > /dev/null
OUT_PATH="$PWD"

# Use pushd to get an absolute path and symbolic links in /tmp to avoid problems
# with spaces in the path names
pushd "$OUT_PATH" > /dev/null
OUT_PATH=$(mktemp -u /tmp/genn.XXXXXXXX)
ln -s "$PWD" $OUT_PATH
popd > /dev/null
pushd $(dirname $MODEL) > /dev/null
MACROS="MODEL=$PWD/$(basename $MODEL) GENERATOR_PATH=$OUT_PATH BUILD_MODEL_INCLUDE=$BUILD_MODEL_INCLUDE CXX_STANDARD=$CXX_STANDARD"
MODEL_PATH=$(mktemp -u /tmp/genn.XXXXXXXX)
ln -s "$PWD" $MODEL_PATH
MACROS="MODEL=$MODEL_PATH/$(basename $MODEL) GENERATOR_PATH=$OUT_PATH BUILD_MODEL_INCLUDE=$BUILD_MODEL_INCLUDE CXX_STANDARD=$CXX_STANDARD"
GENERATOR=./generator
popd > /dev/null

if [[ -n "$DEBUG" ]]; then
MACROS="$MACROS DEBUG=1";
GENERATOR="$GENERATOR"_debug
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -91,4 +98,8 @@ else
"$GENERATOR" "$BASEDIR/../" "$OUT_PATH" "$FORCE_REBUILD"
fi

# Remove the symbolic links in tmp to clean up
rm $OUT_PATH
rm $MODEL_PATH

echo "model build complete"