Dale Miller writes:
Dale> I am working on a package of Lclint which is the free lint for
Dale> Linux. Unfortunately I am having problems with color-ls. When I try
Dale> to do make test to compile the test cases I get the following error.
Dale> dircolors: Unknown shell `csh '. This causes the build to mess
Dale> up. Does anyone have any ideas why this happens. If I purge the
Dale> color-ls package then everything works fine and the build works. I
Dale> like color-ls so I don't want to have to purge it. Any info would be
Dale> appreciated. If you need more info answer my question then let me
Dale> know.
>From dircolors(1):
OPTIONS
-a, -s Assume the user is using a Bourne-style shell which
does not support aliasing. This is default if the
base name of the environment variable SHELL is sh
or ash. Instead a shell function is used. If the
-P option is also used, this function will need to
spawn a subshell; this is slow and should be
avoided if possible.
-b, -k Assume the user is using a Bourne-style shell that
supports Korn-style aliasing. This is the default
if the base name of the environment variable SHELL
is bash or ksh. You may want to specify this
option explicitly if your sh is really a more
advanced shell, which does support Korn-style
aliasing.
You have to add the switch to your call of dircolors. I do the following in
my /usr/local/etc/profile (which is sourced by /etc/profile):
eval `dircolors -b /usr/local/etc/colour-ls.rc`
Hope this helps,
--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
