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Re: updatedb broken [attn: lapack maintainer]
- From: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:52:35 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: updatedb broken [attn: lapack maintainer]
- Reply-to: antiskid56-cygwin at yahoo dot com
The lapack maintainer would be me.
>That's because /etc/profile.d/lapack.sh is polluting the namespace with
>BINDIR=/usr/lib/lapack
Hm, you are correct. This is not purposeful, but inadvertent. I did not note
carefully that the script is being sourced, so that modifications to commonly
used environmental variables like BINDIR are retained when the script
completes.
>I don't know if findutils or lapack is at fault for this conflicting
>definition of what $BINDIR represents. I can probably work around it
>in the next findutils release, but wonder if the lapack maintainer should
>instead be more careful to not pollute the environment during its profile.d
>script.
lapack.sh is at fault here. It should use variable names less likely to
produce collisions, perhaps prefixed with "LA_", or some similar device. I
will fix this in the near future. Thanks for pointing out the issue.
Jim Phillips
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