Package: ferret-vis
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
the script /usr/share/ferret-vis/bin/ferret_paths sets the FER_GO
variable as if it were a standard search path with paths separated by
colons.
As far as I can tell, ferret_c expects paths to be separated by spaces
instead.
In a completely fresh Buster installation:
apt install ferret-vis
. /usr/share/ferret-vis/bin/ferret_paths
ferret_c
GO tutorial
Produces:
**TMAP ERR: non-existent or not on line
/usr/share/ferret-vis/jnls/go:/usr/share/ferret-vis/jnls/contrib:/usr/share/ferret-vis/jnls/examples/tutorial
Additionally, trying to list files via Fgo will fail.
However, if we do this:
export FER_GO="$(echo $FER_GO | sed 's/:/ /g')"
and repeat:
ferret_c
GO tutorial
The tutorial will run.
If we change ferret_paths to export FER_GO like this:
export FER_GO="${FER_GO-${FER_DIR}/jnls/go ${FER_DIR}/jnls/contrib
${FER_DIR}/jnls/examples}"
Fgo will find the tutorial and ferret_c will run it with a single 'GO
tutorial'.
I think that single line change is enough. I did a quick fix locally
(see patch) and can confirm it works.
kind regards
Malte zu Klampen
From 15efcd5ba8224afaf6e4acf6f106904054a09ecf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Malte zu Klampen <malte.zuklam...@ifg.uni-kiel.de>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 12:23:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] FER_GO expects spaces, not colons
---
debian/patches/ferret_paths.patch | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/debian/patches/ferret_paths.patch
b/debian/patches/ferret_paths.patch
index dbc5d58..236c2bd 100644
--- a/debian/patches/ferret_paths.patch
+++ b/debian/patches/ferret_paths.patch
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Index: ferret-vis-6.6.2/environment/bin/ferret_paths
+export
FER_EXTERNAL_FUNCTIONS=${FER_EXTERNAL_FUNCTIONS-/usr/lib/ferret-vis/external_functions}
+export FER_DSETS=${FER_DSETS-${FER_DIR}/datasets}
+export FER_WEB_BROWSER=${FER_WEB_BROWSER-www-browser}
-+export
FER_GO=${FER_GO-${FER_DIR}/jnls/go:${FER_DIR}/jnls/contrib:${FER_DIR}/jnls/examples}
++export FER_GO="${FER_GO-${FER_DIR}/jnls/go ${FER_DIR}/jnls/contrib
${FER_DIR}/jnls/examples}"
+export FER_DATA=${FER_DATA-${FER_DIR}/data}
+export FER_DESCR=${FER_DESCR-${FER_DIR}/descr}
+export FER_GRIDS=${FER_GRIDS-${FER_DIR}/grids}
--
2.20.1
