[Bug-apl] TERM env var not getting set

[Peter Teeson]

Using Mac OS X 10.8 and the Apple Xcode 5.1.1 development IDE

The first few lines in main are:

int

main(int argc, const char * _argv[])

{

   {

     // make curses happy

     //

     const char * term = getenv("TERM");

     if (term == 0 || *term == 0)   setenv("TERM", "dumb", 1);

   }

bool log_startup = false;

Normally I pass the environment variable TERM=xterm-256color when launching APL.

As a test I did not pass anything for TERM. (part of an anomaly I'm trying to debug)

So I set a breakpoint on the first statement.

The debugger, lldb, shows that the term var had been initialized to NULL.

After the call to getenv() the PC was positioned at the log_startup line.

IOW the if statement was skipped and so the setenv() never happened.

I remain confused.

respect…..

Peter