Bug 463149 - bc needs a ~/.bcrc to start
Summary: bc needs a ~/.bcrc to start
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: bc
Version: 5.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Zdenek Prikryl
QA Contact: BaseOS QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-22 10:39 UTC by Alain D D Williams
Modified: 2008-09-23 11:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-09-23 11:29:32 UTC
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Description Alain D D Williams 2008-09-22 10:39:40 UTC 
Description of problem:
The calculator bc will not start unless ~/.bcrc exists

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
bc-1.06-21

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type: bc
It replies: File /home/addw/.bcrc is unavailable.

2. Type: > ~/.bcrc
        bc
and it starts correctly.

The file does not need to contain anything, it just seems to need to exist.
This is different from how bc used to act; what it should do is to just ignore if the .bcrc file does not exist. The manual page makes no reference to this file.
Comment 1 Zdenek Prikryl 2008-09-23 10:44:09 UTC 
Weird, I cannot reproduce it on rhel or fedora. Could you attach as an attachment the output from "$ strace bc"? Thanks.
Comment 2 Alain D D Williams 2008-09-23 11:05:12 UTC 
One million apologies ... I recently upgraded a machine after a hardware failure, my environment contained BC_ENV_ARGS=/home/addw/.bcrc to set scaling and I did not copy the file over.

Again: apologies for wasting your time :-(
Comment 3 Zdenek Prikryl 2008-09-23 11:29:32 UTC 
Ok, so I'm closing this as NOABUG.
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