Strange error

[James Berry]

On May 13, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Randall Wood wrote:
> On 13 May 2007, at 20:09, James Berry wrote:
>> Hey Randall,
>>
>> On May 13, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Randall Wood wrote:
>>
>>> My $HOME environment variable is correctly set, but the Security  
>>> Frameworks do not set this variable. When I 'sudo port ...' it  
>>> works.
>>
>> Does this occur because you're invoking the darwinports framework  
>> directly without going through a shell which would otherwise be  
>> setting HOME?
>
> It occurs when running port from Pallet, my attempt to write a GUI  
> for macports.

But is Pallet actually calling port(1) (through the security  
framework)? If so, what happens if you have it call port(1) through  
the shell, rather than directly through tclsh? /bin/bash sets HOME on  
its own, apparently.

James

>> I'm not quite sure what to do about this issue. I did make a small  
>> change to the code to call file normalize instead of relying on  
>> the file name handling to do the conversion, but it looks to me  
>> like it boils down to the same thing in the end.
>>
>> One possibility is that (since we know we're on a mac), we could  
>> just set $HOME based on the uid, if it's not set. This seems  
>> fraught with a bit of peril. Another possibility might be to just  
>> require that HOME be set, pushing the problem back into your  
>> court. If you're invoking through the darwinports api, can you set  
>> HOME prior to init? Other ideas?