Re: ext_skel

I 've just removed the tests to make it work and also I've changed from awk to gawk, to make it work. Now, I can't do a buildconf, it's getting some error which I couldn't figure it out yet... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jouni Ahto" <jah@php.net> To: "Gustavo Badauy" <gbadauy@yahoo.com> Cc: <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] ext_skel > > > On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Gustavo Badauy wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have tried to use ext_skel on a solaris 2.7 and I'm getting the error > > below. > > ./ext_skel: test: argument expected > > > > Does anybody knows how to fix it? > > Sorry, it was developed on a system where bash is the default shell, and > although the first line in that script says '#!/bin/sh', in my system it > is in fact just a symlink to /bin/bash. On your system, '/bin/sh' probably > doesn't recognize the syntax used in that script. Of course, it would > help somewhat if you'd tell what your command line was, it could be a bug > in the script itself, but it's really just a tool for other programmers, > who are supposed to be able to write one line the right way after the > fifth try (meaning, if it was a typo on your part, I most probably do > not bother myself with fixing the script). > > Anyway, I'd be grateful if you could fix all the 'bashims' out of the > script, or alternatively, someone giving me a temporary access to a system > running the true and original '/bin/sh', so I could do it myself. But, > honestly said, if you can't fix the script yourself, you shouldn't be > using it or writing a PHP module. Learning a lot of more about Unix > systems, their history and and differences, and some nasty quirks in the > implementation of some functions in basic c-libraries you take for > granted to behave reasonably, should be on the top of your list of things > to do. Someday, I might even myself follow my recommendations. > > There might be some other problems regarding the version of awk you are > running, there are a few different ones hanging around (awk, nawk, mawk > and gawk comes to my mind), and I'm not sure if all of them are able to > run the scripts ext_skel needs, because I'm unable (or too lazy) to test > it. :( > > But, if you have bash installed somewhere on your system, try changing the > first line of ext_skel pointing to it. > > -- Jouni Ahto > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com