[Firebird-docs] build.sh broken (was: Zips in the CVS tree)

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi all,

> BTW: A build under Linux failed because bash choked on the newline
> escapes followed by comment lines. Evidently it escaped the #'s too
> and saw the subsequent '-----' as commands! When I removed the
> in-between comment lines from my local copy, everything worked.

Well, it turns out to be a documented bash thing: if a # is glued to
the previous word, it is not considered to be a comment character, so
e.g.

  echo hihihi # hahaha

echoes "hihihi", but

  echo hihihi# hahaha

echoes "hihihi# hahaha"

The same principle is at work in build.sh. It can be fixed in several
ways, but my proposition is to do it like this, because this makes
build.sh and build.bat look more alike, and therefore more easily
maintainable as a pair (I think):

--- BEGIN build.sh ---

#! /bin/sh

if [ "$JAVA_HOME" == "" ] ; then
  echo "    Error: The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set."
  echo "    You must set it to point at your JDK or JRE distribution,"
  echo "    e.g. JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk"
  exit 1
fi


# set up the classpath _CP_ :

# ----- ant libraries: ------
_CP_=../../lib/ant.jar
_CP_=$_CP_:../../lib/optional.jar

# ----- saxon libraries: ------
_CP_=$_CP_:../../lib/saxon.jar

# ----- FOP libraries: ------
_CP_=$_CP_:../../lib/fop.jar
_CP_=$_CP_:../../lib/batik.jar
_CP_=$_CP_:../../lib/avalon-framework-cvs-20020315.jar

_CP_=$_CP_:../../lib

_CP_=$_CP_:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar

java -Xmx100000000 -showversion -classpath $_CP_ org.apache.tools.ant.Main $*

--- END build.sh


I have this in a working copy of my working copy now, and it does the
job (also tested with JAVA_HOME empty of course).


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog