jsoftware/jsource

ijconsole.sh fails

bugsbugsbux opened this issue · 1 comments

latest archlinux; j9.4 installed with bin/install-usr.sh from linux64 download with applied fixes for #175 (add || true to the update-alternatives line) and #176 (GEXT=so)

/usr/bin/ijconsole.sh fails with /usr/bin/ijconsole.sh: line 2: /usr/bin/ijconsole: No such file or directory

it is obvious why this is: the fix for #175 results in not creating the file needed and skipping the else branch which is (cd $BIN && ln -sf ijconsole-9.4 ijconsole)

if we use ||(cd $BIN && ln -sf ijconsole-9.4 ijconsole) instead of ||true it works.

note: (cd foo && bar) puts you back where you are so if you use an if clause instead you need to manually do that. (that was news to me)

nitpick: since we are handling the case that update-alternatives isn't available, it would be nice imo to suppress the error message by redirecting it to /dev/null

bilam commented

I have already put (cd $BIN && ln -sf ijconsole-9.5 ijconsole) in my last patch.