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Re: crash if HOME is unset
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Timothy Sample |
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Re: crash if HOME is unset |
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Mon, 06 Jan 2025 09:28:08 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
Hi,
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> Thanks for the patch! I don't have a way to easy way to test things
> until there is a new gash release included into Guix, but I worked
> around this particular bug by setting HOME=/ and then I got another
> crash when trying to start /bin/gash. See backtrace below. Any ideas?
Set the USER variable, too. These crashes come from some UI code that
is used to run Gash with a readline interface. It only runs when Gash
thinks it’s being run interactively. It’s not well tested code.
> Btw, should I expect the combination of gash & gash-utils from Guix to
> be able to work as a /bin/sh and be able to successfully run ./configure
> from, say, GNU hello?
This might work. Gash is used to build a few GNU-style packages in
Guix. However, it’s been developed and tested to build older GNU
software for bootstrapping. Guix replaces Gash and Gash-Utils as soon
as it can. There’s a fair chance that the build scripts from a recent
version of GNU Hello use some feature of awk (or sed, grep, etc.) that
Gash-Utils does not support (yet). I’d be interested to hear whether it
works.
-- Tim
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