Re: Irrexec - /usr/bin/sh - execvp failure

[Alec L. <lea...@gm...>]

On 2015-04-20 00:03, Laurence Darby wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:22:44 +0100 James A R Brown wrote:
>
>> Hi Alec,
>>
>> I just built 0.9.3 from git, which all worked aside from irexec.
>>
>> I was getting a very vauge "execvp failure" message, which turns out
>> to be this line in irexec.cpp
>>
>> if (pid2 == 0) {
>> logprintf(LIRC_DEBUG, "Execing command \"%s\"", cmd);
>> execvp("/usr/bin/sh", vp);

Thanks for reporting this!

>> But on my system "/usr/bin/sh" does not exist, so I symlinked
>> to /bin/sh and now work
>>
>> Should that variable not be pulled from --bindir or --prefix as
>> applicable on compile?

Sort of.  It should be localized by ./configure  and reflected in
config.h. The program should refer to this constant.  I will look into this.


Cheers!

--alec