Re: cygport: KEEPDIRS not working, doenv and tcsh

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 29 01:41, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On 2012-04-28 04:44, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >- Another problem I found is the way the `doenv' command works.
> >   I like the idea, but it's not working well for tcsh scripts.
> >
> >   Assuming I want to extend the MANPATH variable, as for OpenSSL:
> >
> >     doenv MANPATH '${MANPATH}:/usr/ssl/man'
> >
> >   The result for tcsh looks like this:
> >
> >     setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/ssl/man"
> >
> >   The problem is this.  If the MANPATH variable is not set at the time,
> >   tcsh will choke on it:
> >
> >     $ setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/ssl/man"
> >     MANPATH: Undefined variable.
> >
> >   A more generic solution, which takes potential self-referencing into
> >   account should first set the variable to an empty string if it doesn't
> >   exist:
> >
> >     if ( $?MANPATH ) setenv MANPATH ""
> >     setenv MANPATH "${MANPATH}:/usr/ssl/man"
> 
> Does the attached patch for cygport help?

Yes, that helps, thank you.

Sigh, I just noticed that my yesterday released openssl-1.0.1b-1 created
broken profile.d scripts.  I'm creating a -2 right now.


Corinna

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