Subject: Re: [bug#41411] gnu: gnurl: Update to 7.70.0

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 02:54:22 +0200

> runtests.pl:
> In the environment of guix, $USER is unset.
>
> # get the name of the current user
> my $USER = $ENV{USER};          # Linux
> if (!$USER) {
>     $USER = $ENV{USERNAME};     # Windows
>     if (!$USER) {
>         $USER = $ENV{LOGNAME};  # Some Unix (I think)
>     }
> }
>
>
> leads to $USER being uninitialized at some point (around line 3600 or
> something further below, grep for it). The tests loudly complain to the
> log but it's not fatal.

What is the USER variable used for?  If it’s not needed why set it at all?

-- 
Ricardo