[oe] any ETA on a fixed xterm-207?
Philip Balister
philip at balister.org
Sun Nov 8 13:12:07 UTC 2009
On 11/08/2009 11:58 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> i realize i've mentioned this at least a couple times before (on the
> angstrom list) but is there any ETA on fixing the unbuildable
> xterm-207 package so that i can bitbake beagleboard-demo-image?
I can reproduce the problem, but I cannot implement a fix and test until
Tuesday AM at the earliest.
Philip
>
> the problem with xterm_207 appears to be obvious. the install
> script contained therein -- sinstall.sh -- contains the following
> snippet:
>
> =====
>
> case ".$cf_mode" in #(vi
> .???s??s*) #(vi
> PROG_SUID=4000
> PROG_SGID=2000
> ;;
> .???s*) #(vi
> PROG_SUID=4000
> PROG_GRP=
> ;;
> .??????s*)
> PROG_SGID=2000
> PROG_USR=
> ;;
> esac
> PROG_MODE=`echo ".$cf_mode" | sed -e 's/^..//' -e 's/rw./7/g' -e 's/r-./5/g' -e 's/--[sxt]/1/g'`
>
> =====
>
> it seems clear that the point of that snippet is to convert a
> symbolic mode to a numeric mode. unfortunately, these days, the
> symbolic mode has a trailing period, whereupon the resulting numeric
> mode *also* has a trailing period, at which point the subsequent
> "chmod" command tries to use a mode of "755." and chokes.
>
> as a quick hack, i snuck in the line:
>
> PROG_MODE=${PROG_MODE%\.}
>
> right after that last line to knock off the trailing period and that
> fixed things and allowed xterm to build. a cleaner solution would be
> to perhaps whack off that period at the top. either way would work.
>
> rday
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