/etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh and basename

["Wheeler, Frederick W \(Research\)" <wheeler at crd dot ge dot com>]

In Cygwin, when I ssh to my machine, I get the following error from basename

% ssh d1
Last login: Thu Mar 10 08:54:40 2005 from caleb.crd.ge.com
basename: invalid option -- b
Try `basename --help' for more information.
-bash: [: too many arguments
% 

I've traced this into /etc/profile.d/lilypond-profile.sh.  On line 25 we see

  basename "$0"

which becomes

  basename "-bash"

and gives the error.  Perhaps this resulted from a change in basename behavior in the recent coreutils update?  I'm not sure.

    21      echo "Continuing anyway ..."
    22      return 2
    23  fi
    24  
    25  if [ -z "$ZSH_NAME" -a `basename "$0"` = "lilypond-profile" ] ; then 
    26      cat >/dev/stderr <<EOF
    27      
    28  Error: This script cannot be run in a subshell; it MUST be sourced.
    29  
    30  

Changing line 25 to this

    25  if [ -z "$ZSH_NAME" -a `basename "/$0"` = "lilypond-profile" ] ; then 

seems to work for me.  Now

  basename "/$0"

which becomes

  basename "/-bash"

and basename prints "-bash" and everything seems to work OK.  I'm not sure what all the implications are though.  For example, if $0 is "", then basename "/$0" is basename "/" which produced "/".  That might be OK for the purposes of this script.

I've attached "cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck.out".  I did a complete setup.exe update this morning.

Fred Wheeler

Attachment: cygcheck.out
Description: cygcheck.out

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