On Sunday 03 October 2004 00:18, Doug White wrote: > Hey folks, > > I ran into a build problem on my amd64 box today, where ar was being > fed output from a backtick operation but the carriage returns weren't > being converted to spaces. After some gdb digging in sh, I found > that the reason for the problem was that IFS=" " was set in my shell > environment. > > Since I don't touch IFS in any of my shell dotfiles, and the system > shellfiles don't either, I think this may be coming from > /etc/rc.d/localpkg. It sets IFS just before calling the start script > for scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and friends. I start kdm out of a > script there, and it probably inherits the environment, and it > propagates all the way up to my Konsole session where I was trying to > build world. > > Unsetting IFS made the buildworld continue past the prior point of > trouble. > > I'm not quite sure why this is only a problem on the amd64 machine -- > it was running a September 23 world, but is running KDE 3.3 instead > of KDE 3.2 like the other machines I have here. The system was also > built from scratch about that time, and the others have been around > for 6 months or more. > > I guess no one changes the script_name_sep rc.conf variable to > something more dangerous than the default space... > > Anyway, I think we should investigate running local package scripts > with IFS (and other hazardous variables) stripped using env. Or > perhaps not play with IFS at all unless the user sets > script_name_sep, and change the default accordingly. > > I'm not sure why this doesn't mess more stuff up :-/ If you are using KDE-3.3.0 an csh, this maybe your problem: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72388 Attached a simple patch agains Xsession -- josemi
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