On 04.11.03 Michel Casabona (michel.casab...@free.fr) wrote: Hi Michel,
> "texconfig init" fails when called by tetex-bin.postinst, run under > ash/dash. There is no problem when /bin/sh points to bash. > Just curious: are you able to reproduce the problem using Debian unstable and texlive-binaries? Remember: the problem is only reproducible when using eterm. > The problem occurs in the check_environ() procedure while parsing > $envvars, and seems to be caused by the variable contents split on > multiple lines (contains embedded "newline"). > > IFS is changed by the postinst script not to include "newline" > before texconfig is called. bash and dash seem to behave > differently on word expansion wrt IFS (dunno which one is posixly > correct ;) > > A simple patch to save/restore IFS in the postinst script seemed to > cure the problem (note that texconfig does the same) : > Thanks, Hilmar -- sigmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
