startx broken due to bashisms
Jeremy C. Reed
reed at reedmedia.net
Sat Nov 26 19:33:46 PST 2005
I finally got X installed on NetBSD 2.x today. startx failed with:
/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: arith: syntax error: "dummy+1"
I see that xc/programs/xinit/startx.cpp revision 1.5 says:
Bug #3860: Avoid a bashism.
But the CVS log entry for revision 1.6 is empty. (I have seen this for
other code too. Please don't point to ChangeLog -- especially since it is
not in the same monolithic directory.)
The dummy=$((dummy+1)); appears to be added in revision 1.3.
NetBSD does provide a native /bin/ksh that does support the
dummy=$((dummy+1)).
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
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