An unhandled exception occured, when passing bogus input to bst #2077
Description
See elements is not an absolute path
# File generated by convert.py
build-depends:
- freedesktop-sdk.bst:components/gtk3.bst
depends: []
sources: []
kind: script
config:
commands:
- install -m755 install-licenses.sh /usr/bin
variables:
cwd: elements
Error message:
[00:00:00][7aac01d5][ build:licence-extractor.bst ] BUG Build
An unhandled exception occured:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/buildstream/_scheduler/jobs/job.py", line 350, in child_action result = self.child_process() # pylint: disable=assignment-from-no-return
File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/buildstream/_scheduler/jobs/elementjob.py", line 81, in child_process return self._action_cb(self._element)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/buildstream/_scheduler/queues/buildqueue.py", line 55, in _assemble_element element._assemble()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/buildstream/element.py", line 1695, in _assemble
self.__configure_sandbox(sandbox)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/buildstream/element.py", line 2681, in __configure_sandbox
self.configure_sandbox(sandbox) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/buildstream/scriptelement.py", line 200, in configure_sandbox
sandbox.set_work_directory(self.__cwd)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/site-packages/buildstream/sandbox/sandbox.py", line 149, in set_work_directory
assert directory.startswith("/"), "The working directory must be an absolute path"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
AssertionError: The working directory must be an absolute path
One would expect only an error message (or alternatively making the path absolute relative to where bst is run from or where project.conf is.