[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#775302: [fis-gtm] UTF-8 libgtmutils.so in fis-gtm-6.2-000 is missing routines

[Amul Shah]

Package: fis-gtm
Version: 6.2-000-1
Severity: important

A user reported the following on comp.lang.mumps:
> When starting gtm with gtm_chset=UTF-8 i get the following error:
> (the error does not occur in m-mode)
>
> %GTM-E-ZLINKFILE, Error while zlinking "%XCMD"
> %GTM-E-FILENOTFND, File %XCMD not found
>
> Any hints? I found an old discussion linking this to a missing/incomplete
> gtmroutines environment variable, but that one seems to be correct 

As an upstream fis-gtm developer, I was confused since this bug is not present in the package that I built on my Debian 7 stable 
workstation. However, when I picked up the package from https://packages.debian.org/sid/fis-gtm-6.2-000, I was able to recreate 
the error.

There seems to be a problem with the creation of the UTF-8 mode libgtmutil.so. Upstream is tracking the issue as GTM-8041.

This is the M mode test case which works:
$ . /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/fis-gtm/V6.2-000_x86_64/gtmprofile
$ ls $gtm_dist/[_A-Z][A-Z]*.m | sed -e 's;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/fis-gtm/V6.2-000_x86_64/;set ln="^;' -e 's;\.m.*$;" write 
ln," was ",$select($length($text(@ln)):"",1:"not "),"found";' -e 's;_;%;' | $gtm_dist/mumps -direct ; echo $gtmroutines
... prints mostly "^XYZ was found" except for GDE routines which is normal ...

This is the UTF-8 mode test case which does not work
$ . /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/fis-gtm/V6.2-000_x86_64/utf8/gtmprofile
$ ls $gtm_dist/[_A-Z][A-Z]*.m | sed -e 's;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/fis-gtm/V6.2-000_x86_64/utf8/;set ln="^;' -e 's;\.m.*$;" 
write ln," was ",$select($length($text(@ln)):"",1:"not "),"found";' -e 's;_;%;' | $gtm_dist/mumps -direct ; echo $gtmroutines
... prints only "^XYZ was not found" ...

Amul

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