On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > > 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. [...] > 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 Good eye. That machine actually does have kde3.3, being recently rebuilt. I'm not sure the patch offered is 100% correct, but using env seems much more portable than set. I'm curious why kdm is messing with people's dotfiles anyway; it may explain why ssh-agent sessions aren't propagating into the kde environment. Thanks for the pointer! -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Wed Oct 06 2004 - 23:37:25 UTC
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