Re: gstep-make, FORCE_USER_ROOT

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 03:26 PM, Helge Hess wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we have this in gstep-make-1.3.0, GNUstep.sh:
> ---snip---
> #
> # Ask the user_home tool for the root path.
> #
> if [ -z "$GNUSTEP_FLATTENED" ]; then
> GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT=`$GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES/$GNUSTEP_HOST_CPU/$GNUSTEP_HOST_OS/
> user_home user`
> else
>   GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT=`$GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES/user_home user`
> fi
> ---snap---
>
> Isn't calling user_home unnecessary if I configured with 
> --with-user-root ?

Well, user_home tells GNUstep.sh the value you configured.

> Problem 2: I'm almost sure now that user_home injects a carriage return 
> (^M) into my environments variables. Is there anything known which 
> could  be the reason for this ?

Nothing I know of.

Why not do 'user_home user | od -c' to see exactly what user_home is 
producing?

I it *is* producing a carriage return, you need to look at how the 
FORCE_USER_ROOT
variable is being defined when user_home is compiled.