Message-Id: <m12H8LS-002ccpC@shakti.kos.su>
From: Tuomas Jormola <tj@sgic.fi>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Build fails if user has path "./"  before "/usr/bin/" in his $PATH
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 18:46:02 +0200
Reply-To: tj@sgic.fi

Package: ucspi-tcp-src
Version: 0.84-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Well what the subject says... If you have $PATH like mine
(./:/home/$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games),
binary-indep phase will fail when it tries to launch program "install" in order
to install some dirs to debian/ but there is already install binary that was
just built in the current dir that of course doesn't work in the same way as
/usr/bin/install does. Maybe debian/rules should somehow check that "./" isn't
in $PATH and alter it if necessary.

I know no-one  should have "./" in $PATH at all, but my 2nd machine isn't
networked at all so I don't have to be afraid of any trojans so I tend to have
"./" in my $PATH. That saves many keystorkes a day :)

Actially I'm probably the only person in the world who can encounter this bug
so I'm not quite sure if this needs to be fixed at all.

Thanks,
Tuomas Jormola <tj@sgic.fi>

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux shakti.kos.su 2.2.14 #1 Sun Jan 9 19:42:57 EET 2000 i686

Versions of packages ucspi-tcp-src depends on:
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.6.7      Package building tools for Debian 
ii  fakeroot                      0.4.4-4.1  Gives a fake root environment.    
ii  gcc                           1:2.95.2-5 The GNU C compiler.               
ii  make                          3.78.1-3   The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  patch                         2.5-2      Apply a diff file to an original  
ii  sudo                          1.6.1-1    Provides limited super user privil