Bug#525534: *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/perl: double free or corruption

[Ryan Niebur]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:10:14PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 08:05:11AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > 
> > BTW, the test suite pollutes ~/.Schmuh. Maybe debian/rules should
> > run it with HOME set to /nonexistent or somesuch.
> 
> Note that most buildds run with HOME set to something that does
> not exist.
> 

this email made me think "hm. so none of us can get it to segfault,
and yet it segfaults on a lot of the buildds, and the buildds don't
have home directories, and we do...I wonder..." and it turns out that
gregoa's patch making the tests get ran with /tmp as $HOME actually
fixes the FTBFS too! :)

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