Well, my Linux ignorance must be showing. I thought about the first line of
the script, #!/bin/bash and said "that is to invoke the shell." so i tried
just "./oebb.sh config spitz" and it ran.
Why does "./oebb.sh config spitz" work and
"sh oebb.sh config spitz" does not?
Walt
On Aug 9, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Walt Scrivens wrote:
> I feel badly asking for help so early in the process.
> I have completely given up with Narcissus for the Spitz. After trying at
> least a dozen permutations of X11, and opie, I still can't get a working
> hdimage, so I thought I would try to do my own and learn a bit in the process.
>
> I did a git clone of the repository from gitorious, and tried running the
> setup script:
>
> sh oebb.sh config spitz
>
> and was rewarded with
>
> oebb.sh: 46: Synatx error: "(" unexpected.
>
> Line 46 of the file is
>
> function set_environment()
>
> which looks reasonable to me. There are no stray parentheses earlier in the
> file that could throw off the count.
>
> (I'm working on a Ubuntu 9.10 box)
>
> Any help would be welcome.
>
> Walt
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