i tried running pd 0.37 on a stripped down linux system yesterday, and it crashed when the HOME environment variable was not set. getenv("HOME") returns NULL in s_path.c, function int sys_rcfile(void), which will cause the line
strncat(fname, getenv("HOME"), MAXPDSTRING-10);
(number 308) to die.
sorry if this is already fixed, i'm running 0.37-test8
tom