[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#530092: grass: bashism in /bin/sh script

[Hamish]

Package: grass
Followup-For: Bug #530092

checkbashisms' output:
> possible bashism in ./usr/lib/grass64/scripts/mkftcap line 34 (should
> be >word 2>&1):
>     if which fc-list >&/dev/null ; then

don't know.  source:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/tools/mkftcap/mkftcap


> possible bashism in ./usr/lib/grass64/scripts/d.m line 13
> ($HOST(TYPE|NAME)):
>	  if [ "$HOSTTYPE" = "macintosh" -o "$HOSTTYPE" = "powermac" -o
> "$HOSTTYPE" = "powerpc" -o "$HOSTTYPE" = "intel-pc" ] ; then

not relevant to Debian; fails safely

> possible bashism in ./usr/lib/grass64/etc/grass-run.sh line 5 ($BASH):
> if [ "$TERM" = "xterm" ] && [ -n "$BASH" ] ; then

this is a test to see if we are using Bash ...

> possible bashism in ./usr/lib/grass64/etc/grass-run.sh line 7 (echo 
-e):
>    echo -e "\033]0;${TITLE}\007\c"

 ... before using a Bashism. (fails safely)

> possible bashism in ./usr/lib/grass64/etc/grass-run.sh line 35 (should 
be
> read [-r] variable):
>    read

valid; fixed upstream in svn r37509,10


> possible bashism in ./usr/lib/grass64/etc/Init.sh line 330
> ($HOST(TYPE|NAME)):
> if [ "$HOSTTYPE" = "arm" ] ; then

this is probably not of interest to Debian; thus if it fails no loss.
(fails safely)

> possible bashism in ./usr/lib/grass64/etc/Init.sh line 859 (unsafe
> echo with backslash):
>     echo "set prompt = '\\" >> "$cshrc"
> possible bashism in ./usr/lib/grass64/etc/Init.sh line 860 (unsafe
> echo with backslash):
>     echo "Mapset <${MAPSET}> in Location <${LOCATION_NAME}> \\" >> 
"$cshrc"


tested in dash and csh -- works as expected.
anyway this is inside a test if `basename $SHELL` = "csh|tcsh".



Hamish