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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:52:35 -0800 (PST)
From: "James R. Phillips" <antiskid56-cygwin AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: antiskid56-cygwin AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: updatedb broken [attn: lapack maintainer]
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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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