Bug 701390

Summary: Incorrect PATH scan results in extensions not found
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Patrick Monnerat <patrick>
Component: inkscapeAssignee: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Patrick Monnerat 2011-05-02 18:56:33 UTC
Description of problem:
When the PATH environment variable contains a null component (to force current dir lookup), subsequent components are not used for extension lookup.
This results in missing existing programs, thus disabling some importation extensions.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
inkscape-0.48.1-1.fc14.1.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. prefix the PATH value with a colon (:) 'export PATH=":$PATH"'
2. run inkscape
3. Try to open a postscript (.ps) file ...
  
Actual results:
Cannot import a postscript file.

Expected results:
Proper importation and conversion of a postscript file, even in case of null component in the PATH.

Additional info:
The attached patch fixes the problem.
I did NOT report the bug and the path upstream.

Comment 1 Patrick Monnerat 2011-05-02 18:57:54 UTC
Created attachment 496334 [details]
Patch fixing the problem

Comment 2 Patrick Monnerat 2011-06-24 13:38:01 UTC
Reported upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/801568

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