| Summary: |
shell scripts won't work with strict POSIX shells (e.g. dash) |
| Product: |
xprint
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Reporter: |
Sandor Geller <wildy> |
| Component: |
Server: Config: startup scripts | Assignee: |
Roland Mainz <roland.mainz> |
| Status: |
RESOLVED
WONTFIX
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| Severity: |
normal
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| Priority: |
high
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CC: |
MostAwesomedude
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| Version: |
unspecified | |
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| Hardware: |
x86 (IA32) | |
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| OS: |
Linux (All) | |
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i915 platform:
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| Bug Blocks: |
5799
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I checked out and installed X.org CVS (6.8.99.900) version. X won't start because: 1. the startx script contains a non POSIX-compliant arithmetic evaluation 2. the installed xprint init script uses arrays, which aren't present in strictly POSIX-compliant shells My /bin/sh is dash. The first problem can be solved by a trivial patch: --- programs/xinit/startx.cpp.orig 2005-07-26 01:19:06.000000000 +0200 +++ programs/xinit/startx.cpp 2005-09-14 11:27:09.000000000 +0200 @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ EOF removelist="$displayname $removelist" else - dummy=$((dummy+1)); + dummy=$(($dummy+1)); xauth -q -f $xserverauthfile << EOF add :$dummy . $authcookie EOF The second problem can be solved by specifying /bin/bash instead of /bin/sh - however this assumes that bash is installed into the /bin directory which might be false on non-Linux platforms.