Re: [Bashburn-info] Substantial change to the configure function.

[Nick W. <ni...@uk...>]

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 07:26:10 +0100
Nick Warne <ni...@uk...> wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:00:17 -0400 (EDT)
> "Steven W. Orr" <st...@sy...> wrote:
> 
> > We now have a Revert function in the Configure option.
> > 
> > If you change a value, it will not take place until you Apply it. If
> > you Revert, then all changes will be wiped out.
> > 
> > This is a rather substantial change and I (as usual) think I got it
> > right. No bets.
> > 
> > There is some English language text in configure.
> > 
> > And finally, the BashBurn.sh had to get re-structured. It's vital
> > that all sourcing not happen from the context of a subroutine. To
> > make a long story short:
> > 
> > -------bar.sh------
> > 
> > typeset -ri intval=44
> > 
> > ------end of bar.sh
> > 
> > foo()
> > {
> >      . bar.sh
> > }
> > 
> > will cause intval to be a local variable inside foo and never
> > globally available. You might not care except that I still want the
> > option of creating and declaring global variables.
> > 
> > Enjoy. It's 1AM and I'm outtahee.
> > 
> 
> OK, I get syntax errors when starting... it looks like bash doesn't
> like empty functions.  If I remove them, all seems well but I don't
> know what you was doing here so haven't changed anything.
> 
> line 285: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
> 
> source_language_modules()
> {
> }   <---------------------------------
> 

I get around the above error by adding a 'continue'.

Another thing is 'apply changes' doesn't work.

Nick
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