Netbeans 3.6Beta runide.sh fails on FreeBSD 5.2R

[Markus Svensson]

Hi!

Thank you for shedding some light on this.

I've forwarded your both of your ideas to the Netbeans development team, and
hopefully they will incorporate the suggested changes into the script.

I think that we BSD'ers deserve a working launcher to. :)

Best Regards,
Markus Svensson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc van Kempen [mailto:marc at bowtie.nl]
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 8:25 PM
> To: freebsd-java at freebsd.org
> Cc: Greg Lewis; Markus Svensson
> Subject: Re: Netbeans 3.6Beta runide.sh fails on FreeBSD 5.2R
> 
> 
> On Friday 13 February 2004 19:48, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:36:17PM +0100, Markus Svensson wrote:
> > > I'm a member of the Netbeans 3.6 Community Acceptance Program (fancy
> word
> > > for bug hunter, I guess). I'm experiencing some issues with the
> runide.sh
> > > launcher script, which I hoped would be resolved by the Netbeans
> > > developers. But it appears that it won't be fixed, since fixing the
> > > script breaks it from MacOS X and Linux users. Anyone interested,
> please
> > > check out the discussion at
> > > http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=39830 and perhaps
> somebody
> > > can explain to me what why the JDK's on different platforms don't
> support
> > > the same parameters?
> >
> > I read the bug, and it doesn't look like it has anything to do with the
> > JDKs using different parameters.  It looks like it has everything to do
> > with different syntaxes for the expr utility.
> >
> > Here is the issue (from expr(1)):
> >
> > Unless FreeBSD 4.x compatibility is enabled, this version of expr
> adheres
> > to the POSIX Utility Syntax Guidelines, which require that a leading
> > argument beginning with a minus sign be considered an option to the
> > program.  The standard -- syntax may be used to prevent this
> > interpretation.
> >
> > e.g.
> >
> > > expr -J-Xms24m : '-J\(.*\)'
> >
> > expr: illegal option -- J
> > usage: expr [-e] expression
> >
> > However, note the first part of the quote from the man page!  So, a
> > possibly solution is for runide.sh to set the EXPR_COMPAT environment
> >
> > variable.  Then things will work, e.g.:
> > > env EXPR_COMPAT=1 expr -J-Xms24m : '-J\(.*\)'
> >
> > -Xms24m
> >
> > So, I would suggest adding these two lines to the script:
> >
> > EXPR_COMPAT=1
> > export EXPR_COMPAT
> >
> > Then it will (hopefully) work on FreeBSD.
> >
> > I will note strongly that its Linux and OSX which are broken in this
> > respect though.  FreeBSD is POSIX compliant, they are not.
> 
> Another possible solution, that also works on Mac OSX and Linux is:
> 
> expr X-J-Xms24m : 'X-J\(.*\)'
> 
> Regards,
> Marc.
> 
> .