retitle 338443 libassa - build fails silent if no writable home is available
severity 338443 serious
thanks

The libassa build fails silent if no writable home is available.

| $ ./assa-genesis Mixer; echo $?  
| 
| assa-genesis: Generating skeleton files ...
| 
| Created: "Mixer-main.h"
| 
| Created: "Mixer-main.cpp"
| 
| Created: "Mixer.h"
| 
| Created: "Mixer.cpp"
| 
| 0
| $ HOME=/ ./assa-genesis Mixer; echo $?
| 1

A strace shows something else, which may break the system during build
time if something goes wrong and this tool is launched in the binary
target:

| $ strace -e unlink ./assa-genesis Mixer > /dev/null 
| --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
| --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
| --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
| --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
| --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
| unlink("/home/waldi/.lt-assa-genesis.pid") = 0
| unlink("/dev/null")                     = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Bastian

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Men will always be men -- no matter where they are.
                -- Harry Mudd, "Mudd's Women", stardate 1329.8


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