Re: chkstow doesn't respect STOW_DIR

Adam Spiers <[email protected]> Sat, 9 Feb 2019 17:09:03 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.stow.bugs
Message-ID <CAOkDyE8u3k0UpKnYsX7PnuqFXQpJC5Jdng3pkcYSQiwBukUmZA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 02:16, Matan Nassau <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have the STOW_DIR environment variable set to ~/usr/local. With that, running
>
>  $ chkstow
>
> seems to analyze /usr/local. I expected it to find STOW_DIR and deduce the target directory to be the parent directory of that.
>
> I have looked in the chkstow chapter in the info pages of stow, but that didn't clear my doubt whether this is intended or a bug. I'm sorry if there's nothing here...
Good catch, thanks for reporting!  I've pushed a PR to fix this:

https://github.com/aspiers/stow/pull/30

Apologies to all for the long absence from Stow development.  I'm
aware that I have a backlog of issues to catch up on, not to mention
an overdue release!  Hopefully will get back to some of that soon.