On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 05:11:23PM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:15:26PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:48:38PM +0900, Kenshi Muto wrote:
> > > When I tried to build kernel 2.6.10 from debian source, I got
> > > following message.
> > >
> > > /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.10/apply/debian 2.6.10-3
> > > /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.10/apply/debian: 160: Syntax error:
> > > Missing '))'
> > >
> > > I'm using dash as sh. I think patch-code should use #!/bin/bash or
> > > be fixed for plain bourne shell.
>
> I agree that this may be a problem in dash. Anyway, there's a simple
> workaround, the only problem is this line
>
> for base in $((cd $home/series/ && ls -d *) | sort -rnt- -k 2); do
>
> and to make it the parser easier, simply put a space between the two '(':
>
> for base in $( (cd $home/series/ && ls -d *) | sort -rnt- -k 2); do
>
> With some good will you can read this from:
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_06_03
> ---
> If the command substitution consists of a single subshell, such as:
>
> $( (command) )
>
> a conforming application shall separate the "$(" and '(' into two tokens
> (that is, separate them with white space). This is required to avoid any
> ambiguities with arithmetic expansion.
> ---
Thanks for that clarification, I will make the relevant updates.
--
Horms
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