Package: jacal
Version: 1c7-1
The /usr/bin/jacal script provided by the current jacal package
fails to set SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH and JACALDIR correctly:
#! /bin/sh
SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/share/slib
export SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH
JACALDIR=/build/jacal-PHwb3U/jacal-1c7/debian/jacal/usr/lib/jacal/
VERSION=1c7
Specifically, SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH (library-vicinity) is expected
to be a prefix (i. e., contain a trailing /), not directory name;
and JACALDIR somehow contains build-time prefix (in place of
a run-time one.)
Also, while we’re at it, I think that the script should make it
possible for the user to override either or both of the variables.
That is, I’d rather have it start with:
#! /bin/sh
: "${SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH:=/usr/share/slib/}"
export SCHEME_LIBRARY_PATH
: "${JACALDIR:=/usr/lib/jacal/}"
VERSION=1c7
(Which is not without its downsides, but is otherwise consistent
with how, say, shells allow for PATH to be overridden arbitrarily.)
FTR, the built-time directory name capture is somehow despite
debian/rules [1] containing:
# These are from upstream's install target, turned into correctness.
debian/jacal/usr/bin/jacal:
-mkdir -p $$(dirname $@)
echo '#! /bin/bash' > $@
echo JACALDIR=/usr/lib/jacal/ >> $@
echo VERSION=$(version) >> $@
cat jacal.sh >> $@
chmod +x $@
[1] http://sources.debian.org/data/main/j/jacal/1c7-1/debian/rules
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