Environment variable with a hyphen is dropped in ubuntu
#2.288 aberto em 20 de abr. de 2023
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Feel free to close this as invalid, the bug is likely not in ninja, as it looks like ninja simply does a posix_spawn to launch a process without modifying the environment. Though interestingly I could not reproduce the issue without ninja (tried my own wrapper that does posix_spawn etc), so opening it here as someone else might have experienced the same issue.
populate buid.ninja with
rule environ
command = env
build env.txt: environ
Run ninja with command:
env - FOO_bar=1 FOO_baz-baz=2 ninja
Expected output from env should include both FOO_bar and FOO_baz-baz variables, but on some systems you will only see the variable without hyphen in the name, those with hyphen are dropped somewhere.
So far I've tested: Ubuntu: Buggy Linux Mint: Buggy Fedora: Works Fine Arch: works Fine
I've also debugged by making ninja printing environ just before doing posix_spawn and I can see the variable FOO_baz-baz there, it just isn't visible in the launched process.
My guess is that ubuntu glibc does something wrong somewhere, but I couldn't find it