diff -ru hunspell-1.2.8.orig/src/tools/hunspell.cxx hunspell-1.2.8/src/tools/hunspell.cxx
--- hunspell-1.2.8.orig/src/tools/hunspell.cxx	2009-12-08 13:54:20.000000000 +0000
+++ hunspell-1.2.8/src/tools/hunspell.cxx	2009-12-08 14:00:09.000000000 +0000
@@ -1016,7 +1016,6 @@
 		i->next = dicwords;
 		dicwords = i;
 		// save
-		strcpy(buf,HOME);
 		if (HOME) strcpy(buf,HOME); else {
 		    fprintf(stderr, gettext("error - missing HOME variable\n"));
 		    break;
@@ -1147,7 +1146,6 @@
 		    }
 		    // save
 		    		    
-		    strcpy(buf,HOME);
 		    if (HOME) strcpy(buf,HOME); else {
 			fprintf(stderr, gettext("error - missing HOME variable\n"));
 			continue;
@@ -1541,7 +1539,7 @@
 	path = add(path, PATHSEP);          // <- check path in root directory
 	if (getenv("DICPATH")) path = add(add(path, getenv("DICPATH")), PATHSEP);
 	path = add(add(path, LIBDIR), PATHSEP);
-	path = add(add(add(add(path, HOME), DIRSEP), USEROOODIR), PATHSEP);
+	if (HOME) path = add(add(add(add(path, HOME), DIRSEP), USEROOODIR), PATHSEP);
 	path = add(path, OOODIR);
 
 	if (showpath) {