Insufficient environment wrappers

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  • Leo Prikler
  • Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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Leo Prikler wrote on 27 Oct 2019 12:11
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Some packages -- such as meld after the startup fix -- fail to use
important resources when simply called from their build directory. For
instance, meld aborts inside a call to `g_log` by
`g_settings_set_property`. In the case of meld, it is sufficient to run
the program inside an ad-hoc environment -- other packages may require
to be installed in the user profile.

Regards,

Leo
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote on 27 Oct 2019 19:06
(name . Leo Prikler)(address . leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at)(address . 37942@debbugs.gnu.org)
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Leo,

Leo Prikler ???
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> Some packages -- such as meld after the startup fix -- fail to
> use
> important resources when simply called from their build
> directory.

This is… true, and has been a source of personal annoyance for
years :-)

As it is, this bug report is a bit vague, almost a meta-bug (‘many
packages have bugs’). Because *many* packages have this problem,
for different reasons. Most instances are pretty easy to fix once
you find out the exact problem, but there's no one-size-fits-all
solution.

Do you have any ideas to make it more actionable?

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> For instance, meld aborts inside a call to `g_log` by
> `g_settings_set_property`. In the case of meld, it is sufficient
> to run
> the program inside an ad-hoc environment -- other packages may
> require
> to be installed in the user profile.

I fixed this specific example in
3a428dd63af0bec23861a8ed1c76665e8f424265.

Thanks for the report!

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Leo Prikler wrote on 11 May 2021 17:19
(address . 37942-done@debbugs.gnu.org)
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I concede, that the initial formulation was a bit too vague and that
meta bugs are not that good unless they can easily be addressed.

Thanks :)
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