Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 07:40:42AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Of course the clean solution would be to signal to the tools not to look >> and write into HOME, but it's hardly realistic to assume that all tools >> used (an ever increasing and changing set) will always follow such a >> rule. Therefore the idea to change HOME to something in the build >> directory. Maybe just unsetting it might do as well. > > The default configuration on buildd is to set $HOME to a directory that > does not exist...
Not on the alpha, mips and mipsel buildds that revealed our bug, http://bugs.debian.org/388399. If the buildds consequently set HOME to a nonexistent directory, this would solve this bug as well, but they don't currently. That's why this bug is open. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
