startx broken due to bashisms
Jeremy C. Reed
reed at reedmedia.net
Fri Feb 24 19:09:54 PST 2006
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> | /usr/X11R6/bin/startx: arith: syntax error: "dummy+1"
>
> | The dummy=$((dummy+1)); appears to be added in revision 1.3.
>
> This work?
The attachment had:
- dummy=$((dummy+1));
+ dummy=`expr $dummy + 1`
I can't remember if I tested this.
I do see that pkgsrc's startx uses:
diff -b -u -r1.7 startx.cpp
--- app/xinit/startx.cpp 15 Nov 2005 04:03:10 -0000 1.7
+++ app/xinit/startx.cpp 24 Feb 2006 22:14:35 -0000
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
EOF
removelist="$displayname $removelist"
else
- dummy=$((dummy+1));
+ dummy=$(($dummy + 1));
XAUTH -q -f $xserverauthfile << EOF
add :$dummy . $authcookie
EOF
May I commit either of the above?
Jeremy C. Reed
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