[ sisc-Bugs-1431789 ] Ancient /bin/sh doesn't deal well with sisc launch

Bugs item #1431789, was opened at 2006-02-14 21:36
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Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Danny Yoo (dyoo)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Ancient /bin/sh doesn't deal well with sisc launch

Initial Comment:
Under Solaris 10's version of /bin/sh, the sisc
launcher reports the following error message:

/export/home/dyoo/local/sisc-1.11.3/sisc: syntax error
at line 65: `(' unexpected


This has to do with the command substitution '$(uname)'
at that line, which is unsupported in Solaris 10's
/bin/sh.  This incompatibility is also described in:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Bourne_Shell_Scripting/Substitution

So a more compatible approach uses backticks, like this:


bash-3.00$ diff -u sisc ~/local/sisc-1.11.3/sisc
--- sisc	Tue Aug 23 08:14:51 2005
+++ /export/home/dyoo/local/sisc-1.11.3/sisc	Tue Feb 14
13:35:54 2006
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 
         
     D=":"
-    case $(uname) in 
+    case `uname -s` in 
       CYGWIN* )
         D=";" ;;
     esac


I hope this helps!

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