On 2/5/13 7:50 AM, Jeff Frontz wrote: > I just updated my base install yesterday (I forget when I last did this, > but it's been many many months, for sure). > > Now, I'm getting a syntax error from the shell (Korn, thanks) every time > I log in-- ".profile[85]: .: syntax error: `=~' unexpected" > > I traced it down to the ". /sw/bin/init.sh" and to this line: > > if [ -r /usr/X11R6/bin ] && [[ ! $PATH =~ X11*/bin ]]; then > > I'm assuming that "=~" is some whack bashism. > > Is there not a standard for fink that says "maintain Bourne shell > compatibility"? > > > >
(Discussed on the bugs tracker, but I'll sum up here) (Leaving aside that the pattern doesn't actually fully do what was intended--I think I was conflating it with what I had to put into init.csh. It happens to work on 10.5+ because Apple's scripts add /usr/X11/bin or /opt/X11/bin to the PATH, and those match. /usr/X11R6/bin would not. The goal is not to add /usr/X11R6/bin to the PATH if there's already a /(usr|opt)/X11(R6)/bin entry there) The standard for Fink is "maintain compatibility with items provided as part of the lowest supported OS X version." Compatibility with third-party installations is optional. =~ is a supported operator in the /bin/ksh which comes with 10.5+. However, it _not_ supported under the /bin/zsh for 10.5, as it turns out, but is supported for 10.6+. But I'll be honest here: I checked only using /bin/bash and /bin/tcsh on 10.5 and 10.8 because I didn't think about /bin/ksh and /bin/zsh. Mea culpa. base-files-1.9.14 has been released, and that replaces the =~ with a back-compatible "echo | grep" operation, as well as using a match pattern which actually catches /usr/X11R6/bin. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
