Bugzilla Bug 127723

this bug report is forked from bug 97574

when emerging lilypond, I (sometimes) get this error:

------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY -------------------------
LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-media-sound_-_lilypond-2.8.0-18165.log"

mkdir:     /root/.PfaEdit
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The problem is the way fontforge detects homedir. It does evaluate /etc/passwd
rather than $HOME. $HOME is /var/tmp/portage/homedir/ inside ebuilds, but
fontforge wants to write to /root/! The following patch for fontforge-20050624
solved the issue for me:

--- fontforge/autosave.c.orig   2006-03-27 09:10:53.000000000 +0200
+++ fontforge/autosave.c        2006-03-27 09:52:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 # include <pwd.h>

 static char *gethomedir(void) {
-    static char *dir=NULL;
+    char *dir=getenv("HOME");
     int uid;
     struct passwd *pw;

@@ -65,9 +65,6 @@
     }
     endpwent();

-    if ( (dir=getenv("HOME"))!=NULL )
-return( (dir=strdup(dir)) );
-
 return( NULL );
 }
 #endif

the patch also applies to fontforge-20060209 (see bug 125752)

Same problem here:

make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/lilypond-2.8.0-r1/work/lilypond-2.8.0/Documentation/misc'
make[2]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/lilypond-2.8.0-r1/work/lilypond-2.8.0/Documentation/misc'
true
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/lilypond-2.8.0-r1/work/lilypond-2.8.0/Documentation/misc'
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/lilypond-2.8.0-r1/work/lilypond-2.8.0/Documentation'
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY
---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-media-sound_-_lilypond-2.8.0-r1-28690.log"

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# emerge info
Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm)  3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632)
[disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.2.2, 2.3.5, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.4.3-r4, 1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown
/usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/
http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d aac aalib alsa amarok apache2 apm arts
audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bzip2 bzlib caps
cdparanoia cdr crypt css cups curl divx4linux dri dvd eds encode exif expat fam
ffmpeg flac font-server fortran gcj gd gdbm gif glut gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer
gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal icq idn imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 jack jack-tmpfs
java jce jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas ladcca ladspa lapack lcms
libcaca libg++ libwww live lzo mad maildir matroska matrox mhash mikmod mmx mng
monkey motif mp3 mpeg musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc
ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl pic png portaudio povray
python qt quicktime readline real samba sasl sdl slang sndfile soundtouch speex
spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts udev unicode usb vim vim-with-x visualization vorbis win32codecs
wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux
elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

Created an attachment (id=84186) [edit]
fontforge-20060125-respect-HOME.patch

looks like that isnt the only bug in the code ... bunch of ugly memleaks as
well

ive sent this stuff upstream

Created an attachment (id=84188) [edit]
fontforge-20060406-respect-HOME.patch

ok, upstream has accepted this patch into their repo so using it in the
20060406 ebuild should be fine

fontforge-20060406 now in portage, thanks for the report