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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50183] tempname() returns an empty string on
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Michele |
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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #50183] tempname() returns an empty string on Solaris |
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Fri, 3 Mar 2017 20:29:44 -0500 (EST) |
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Follow-up Comment #24, bug #50183 (project octave):
"Well, what did you do differently to get the results in comment #21? Way back
in comment #3 you ran tempname and it returned an empty string."
That is true. That was run from my account.
"Now you've run tempname and it returns a valid temporary file name, how did
you run Octave in comment #21 vs before? Did you set the HOME and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables as I did? Or something else?"
I had LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to your directory, but nothing else. IF
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set, Octave won't even start. The key change appears
to involve setting HOME to the value you gave. That got tempname to work.
Why, I do not know.
This system grew from a plain vanilla Solaris 10 DVD. As I discovered I
needed various tools they got added, using whatever defaults were involved.
This resulted in stuff being spread across /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /opt/sfw,
/opt/csw, /export/home and perhaps more. In addition, there are 32 bit and 64
bit versions of things in all of these. I am not a systems engineer and this
is the first time I've tried to bring a Solaris 10 system up to date. It's
pretty difficult to do by myself.
So I guess this looks like a configuration issue and not a bug. You can close
it. Thanks for your time investigating.
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Michele <=
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