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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase
From:       Andy Fawcett <andy () athame ! co ! uk>
Date:       2005-04-06 19:22:46
Message-ID: 200504062222.49162.andy () athame ! co ! uk
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On Wednesday 06 April 2005 22:01, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Stephan Kulow wrote:
> >Am Mittwoch 06 April 2005 19:50 schrieb Oswald Buddenhagen:
> >> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:49:48PM +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> >> > Changing the '.' to 'source' to fix BSD sh
> >>
> >> i'm convinced that this is wrong. "source" is a csh-ism.
> >> you might want to add ./ in front of the file, though.
>
> No need for ./ since the prefix is taken into account, so "$file" should
> expand to the absolute pathname.
>
> >Indeed. ash has no source but a well working .
>
> If ash has no source and BSD sh has no .

On FreeBSD, sh *is* ash (same for NetBSD too, I think)

Further, FreeBSD sh has been handling scripts in env for me since the day that 
code was implemented to startkde. I believe the bug report is totally down to 
the particular user's environment.

A.


> , how do we do it? Do we introduce 
> shell-detection code?
>
> What is it that the Bourne shell has? I would think that the BSD sh is the
> one closest to the original Bourne shell.

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Andy Fawcett                                     | andy@athame.co.uk
                                                 | tap@kde.org
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  we wouldn't need Windows and Gates."  -- anon  | tap@fruitsalad.org
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