iconx and execve problems

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>]

Hello,

As discussed on IRC recently and on the bug-hurd mailing list
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2012-01/msg00004.html
and the debian-hurd mailing list
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/01/msg00001.html
(bug 654381, tests run under fakeroot and . not in PATH)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2012/01/msg00002.html
the icon package FTBFS due to a missing . in PATH. Other architectures
does not have this problem. According to Samuel the problem is missing
info from glibc to the exec server about $0.

In May-June 2010 Emilio Pozuelo monfort proposed a set of patches to
glibc and the exec server by adding two new RPCs
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-05/msg00108.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00002.html

However, that patch was considered not worth the effort
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00010.html

Now when glibc Hurd patches are being considered upstream maybe the set
of patches by Emilio can be revised again. In one way or another, this
problem has to be solved, the icon package has to be moved from
debian-ports to the main archive in the aim of GNU/Hurd to enter testing
for wheezy.

Thanks,
Svante