patch for observance of $HOME

[Armando Di Cianno]

I know this has been discussed previously, and both Debian and Gentoo 
(heh, me), have had issues with GNUstep.sh, it's use of make_services, 
and assumptions about the user environment.

Problems became apparent to me, using Gentoo's portage sandox, that 
the installation of the GNUstep libraries, which except for 
gnustep-make, is dependant on GNUstep.sh, assumes that the use of a 
user's "proper" $HOME is available, and ignore's the environment's 
"configured" $HOME.

Being able to configure the $HOME environment variable has made the 
package management nightmares I was having go away.  I've put together 
a patch that effects NSUser.m in -base and user_home.c in -make.

I've thought a lot about possible consequences, and the only one I can 
come up with is "Is the getenv() function secure enough on all 
platforms we support?"  For this reason, I ask that anyone please go 
over this patch for GNUstep-ness, go over for coding correctness and 
security, and don't flame me too bad 'cause I know this was discussed 
and supposedly solved already.

Thanks,
__Armando Di Cianno

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