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Re: crash if HOME is unset


From: Timothy Sample
Subject: Re: crash if HOME is unset
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 09:28:08 -0600
User-agent: 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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