Debian Bug report logs - #144275
yorick: Changed directory search order for -batch

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: yorick: Changed directory search order for -batch

Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 14:41:34 -0700

Package: yorick
Version: 1.5.08-1
Severity: wishlist

The behaviour of the command

yorick -batch demo1.i

has changed fairly recently.  Before the above command searched current
directory then /usr/share/yorick/1.5/i/ for demo1.i.  Now it searches
/usr/share/yorick/1.5/i/ (and perhaps other dirctories?) before the current
directory.

The only workaround I can find to invoke demo1.i in the current directory
(or any other script in the current directory whose name conflicts with
anything in /usr/share/yorick/1.5/i/) is to use

yorick -batch `pwd`/demo1.i

or to rename all the yorick scripts in my local directory (such as demo?.i
and test?.i) so they don't nameclash with anything in
/usr/share/yorick/1.5/i/

If the directory search order for -batch has been deliberately changed it
should be documented. However, I much prefer the old order (current
directory first) so I hope you change it back to the old order if this was
not an intentional change.

Alan W. Irwin

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux starling 2.4.17starling.3 #1 Mon Feb 11 08:22:51 PST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages yorick depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-4    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  xlibs                         4.1.0-16   X Window System client libraries

Message #10 received at 144275@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "David H. Munro" <munro@oldben.llnl.gov>

To: "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>, 144275@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#144275: yorick: Changed directory search order for -batch

Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:23:28 -0700

Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> Package: yorick
> Version: 1.5.08-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The behaviour of the command
> 
> yorick -batch demo1.i
> 
> has changed fairly recently.  Before the above command searched current
> directory then /usr/share/yorick/1.5/i/ for demo1.i.  Now it searches
> /usr/share/yorick/1.5/i/ (and perhaps other dirctories?) before the current
> directory.
...
> If the directory search order for -batch has been deliberately changed it
> should be documented. However, I much prefer the old order (current
> directory first) so I hope you change it back to the old order if this was
> not an intentional change.

Thank you.  The bug is in yinput.c in the yp_strtok function.  It is a
side effect of the fix for a Windows bug (I HATE that wretched excuse for
an OS), in which the : delimiter is skipped if only a single character
precedes it, to allow for c:\blah\blah path elements.  So .:xxx in the
path interprets "." as a Windows drive letter - oops.  I'll have to think
about a "correct" bug fix; in the meantime, you can just comment out
the offending line and rebuild if you're desperate for a fix.

Message #15 received at 144275-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Thibaut Paumard <paumard@users.sourceforge.net>

To: 144275-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fixed in etch

Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:54:08 +0100

Package: yorick
Version: 2.1

This bug seems to have been fixed some time ago: I cant reproduce it  
in etch. I'm closing it.

Regards, Thibaut.

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