[Geany-devel] Missing environment variables for builds and executes - dash

[Lex Trotman]

On 24 November 2010 23:49, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:36:18 +1100
> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > Unfortunately I don't know that a shell login argument is portable. I
>> > think -l is specific to bash, but even --login doesn't work for dash
>> > (the default /bin/sh on Ubuntu IIRC).
>>
>> Patch actually developed and tested on Ubuntu.
>
> Maybe yours is Bash then.

No bin/sh -> dash

>
> A while ago I saw:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh
>
> And my dash-0.5.4-2.fc8 doesn't seem to have a login argument.

Correct IAW the POSIX spec.

Yet the patch worked on my system??

>
> Anyway, I saw the xprofile messages so I'll leave this.

Yes, if it isn't broke, lets not fix it :-)

Cheers
Lex

>
> Nick
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