Martin Costabel wrote:
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> I don't know yet what bug causes it, but
For the record: In this case, the part of the fink startup procedure
(invoked with `source /sw/bin/init.sh`) that is responsible for the good
working of gftp is - apart from PATH - the environment variable
XDG_DATA_DIRS
which is set to /sw/share by the script
/sw/etc/profile.d/xdg-base.[c]sh, installed by the "xdg-base" package.
One can test this by running
env XDG_DATA_DIRS="" gftp
which will lead to the bus error Jerry has observed.
I think the mechanism is, but this is hard to verify, that without this
variable gftp does not find one of its essential files, then tries to
write an error message about it, but the write command gives a bus error
because of the absence of that essential file. Strange kind of bug. In a
sane Fink environment it does not happen, though.
--
Martin
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