/usr/lib/cgi-bin/gsearch.cgi fails with missing /usr/bin/btreeop

[gzarkadas]

Binary package hint: global

`/usr/bin/btreeop' has been removed from the upstream (source) package since 2002 (see changelog of global's .tar.gz archive); however the .deb package's `htconfig' script, which creates `/usr/lib/cgi-bin/gsearch.cgi' during the postinst package action has not been updated to reflect this (htconfig man page dates from 1999).

Thus, `/usr/lib/cgi-bin/gsearch.cgi' fails to search for patterns entered from the web form, filling apache2 logs with lines such as this (...xxx... fields contain cleaned-up info):

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[...date...] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] sh: /usr/bin/btreeop: not found, referer: http://localhost/...my-project-url.../mains.html
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To resolve the bug, the offending lines of code in the `gsearch.cgi' script and `htconfig' script (that creates the former) must be changed to use the new facilities provided from the upstream (source) package.

Ubuntu release: 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
`global' release: 5.7.1-1

[gzarkadas (gzarkadas)]

The following modification to `gsearch.cgi' (a merge of /usr/share/gtags/global.cgi.tmpl and /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gsearch.cgi plus my additions) seems to solve the issue.

Some corner cases have remained untested, but since it is a merge of previously supposed to work code, the chance of something remaining broken is low.

I attach three files:
1. The modified, now working, revision of /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gsearch.cgi (file: gsearch.cgi)
2. A unified diff of 1 with initial /usr/lib/cgi-bin/gsearch.cgi (file: diff_gsearch.cgi)
3. A unified diff of 1 with /usr/share/gtags/global.cgi.tmpl (file: diff_global.cgi.tmpl)