Re: [Bug-stow] Possible bug when overriding .stowrc options

[Jean Louis]

Hello,

I am using stow (GNU Stow) version 2.2.2. and I was using it as root,
if it makes a difference. 

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:59:54PM +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 02:17:32PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> > If I have option --target /usr in .stowrc, it is a possible bug, if I
> > then wish to override the target with -t /usr/lib then it complains it
> > is not stow target.
> > 
> > But it is not logical that I need to delete .stowrc to be able to
> > operate with different targets.
> 
> I'm sorry but I can't reproduce this.  And the code seems correct,
> because the contents of .stowrc are simply prepended to the list of
> CLI arguments before parsing all arguments via Getopt::Long's
> GetOptions() function, in which later arguments override earlier ones.
> 
> Please can you state the exact Stow version you are using, and give
> the exact steps to reproduce a minimal test case?  Thanks!

I cannot reproduce it now too. It was with the picolisp being in /usr/lib

<DEV> root [ /usr/lib ]# ls picolisp/
app/     CHANGES  CREDITS  dbg.l    doc64/   ext.l    img/     java/    lib.css 
 loc/     misc/    pil      src/     test/    
bin/     COPYING  cygwin/  doc/     ersatz/  games/   INSTALL  lib/     lib.l   
 man/     opt/     README   src64/   
<DEV> root [ /usr/lib ]# ls picolisp/^C
<DEV> root [ /usr/lib ]# ls- ^C
<DEV> root [ /usr/lib ]# ls -l |grep picolisp
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        36 Nov 29 14:53 picolisp -> 
../../package/prog/picoLisp/picolisp
<DEV> root [ /usr/lib ]# cd /package/prog/
<DEV> root [ /package/prog ]# stow -t /usr/lib -D picoLisp/
Loading defaults from /root/.stowrc
<DEV> root [ /package/prog ]# ls -l /usr/lib/picol^C
<DEV> root [ /package/prog ]# stow -t /usr/lib picoLisp
Loading defaults from /root/.stowrc
<DEV> root [ /package/prog ]# ls -l /usr/lib/picolisp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Dec 19 06:37 /usr/lib/picolisp -> 
../../package/prog/picoLisp/picolisp
<DEV> root [ /package/prog ]# cat /root/.stowrc 
--target=/usr
<DEV> root [ /package/prog ]# stow -t /usr/lib picoLisp