[daisy] fixing merlin startup script on solaris

[Bruno Dumon]

Hi Jorg,

Good to remind us this problem still exists. I've created an issue at:

http://issues.cocoondev.org/browse/DSY-443

It would help a bit if you could add the complete working script (not
patch) to that issue.

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 11:28 +0200, Jorg Heymans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As mentioned here [1] and [2] , the startup script for merlin does not
> work on solaris by default (you get a 'can't find jarfile' error)
> 
> Bruno said back then that the fix should be applied to the merlin
> project rather than here. Now that merlin seems to have become metro i
> don't know if this is still relevant. 
> 
> Anyway, [3] is what i had to do to get it to work, in case this is
> useful for others. 
> 
> In any case, bash supports both syntaxes so perhaps the more
> conservative construct could be made default.
> 
> -bash-3.00$ SOME=THING;export SOME; echo $SOME
> THING
> -bash-3.00$ export SOME=ANOTHERTHING; echo $SOME
> ANOTHERTHING
> -bash-3.00$ sh
> $ export SOME=OOPS; echo $SOME
> SOME=OOPS: is not an identifier
> $ SOME=AAAH; export SOME; echo $SOME 
> AAAH
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Jorg
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.cocoondev.org/pipermail/daisy/2005-February/000821.html
> [2]
> http://lists.cocoondev.org/pipermail/daisy/2006-January/003025.html
> 
> [3]
> 
> -bash-3.00$ diff -u merlin.orig merlin     
> --- merlin.orig Wed Apr  4 10:15:22 2007
> +++ merlin      Wed Apr  4 10:18:39 2007 
> @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
>  #
>  
>  
> -export MERLIN_VERSION="3.3.0"
> +MERLIN_VERSION="3.3.0"
> +export MERLIN_VERSION
>  
>  # Checking for JAVA_HOME is required on *nix due
>  # to some distributions stupidly including kaffe in /usr/bin 
> @@ -14,7 +15,8 @@
>    exit 1
>  fi
>  
> -export PLATFORM=`uname`
> +PLATFORM=`uname`
> +export PLATFORM
>  
>  #
>  # Compute the MERLIN_HOME if not already set.
> @@ -25,10 +27,13 @@
>      cd "$BIN_DIR" 
>      ABSOLUTE_PATH=`pwd`
>      cd "$CWD"
> -    export MERLIN_HOME="`dirname "$ABSOLUTE_PATH"`"
> +    MERLIN_HOME="`dirname "$ABSOLUTE_PATH"`"
> +    export MERLIN_HOME 
>  fi
> -export
> MERLIN_BOOTSTRAP_JAR="$MERLIN_HOME/system/merlin/jars/merlin-cli-$MERLIN_VERSION.jar"
>  
> +MERLIN_BOOTSTRAP_JAR="$MERLIN_HOME/system/merlin/jars/merlin-cli-$MERLIN_VERSION.jar"
> +export MERLIN_BOOTSTRAP_JAR
> +
>  if [ `echo $PLATFORM | grep "CYGWIN"` ] ; then
>      exec "$MERLIN_HOME/bin/internal-cygwin.sh" "$@"
>  elif [ `echo $PLATFORM | grep "Linux"` ] ; then 

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