Patch for problems with profile script in Win9x

[Karl M]

Hi Paul...

Why not just do something like

case $(echo $0 | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]) in

instead of

case $0 in

? It seems easier.

Thanks,

...Karl

>From: "Paul Galbraith"
>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Subject: Patch for problems with profile script in Win9x
>Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 11:04:26 -0500
>
>It seems that the default profile script checks what shell the user is
>running and sets appropriate defaults based on the shell.  Unfortunately, 
>on
>all Win9x installs that I've done recently, I've noticed that the profile
>isn't correctly identifying that bash is my shell (which it indeed is).  
>The
>problem seems to be that $0 is set to 'BASH', whereas the script is testing
>for 'bash'.  The following changes to /etc/profile fix things up for me.
>
>I know that /etc/profile comes from the base-files package, but I don't 
>know
>where the source is located for that package...perhaps someone more
>knowledgeable than I can submit this patch to the appropriate place?
>Thanks!
>
>Paul
>
>----------
>
>--- /etc/profile.orig 2004-03-07 10:03:26.000000000 -0500
>+++ /etc/profile 2004-03-07 10:24:12.000000000 -0500
>@@ -78,7 +78,11 @@
>  # export CVSROOT
>
>  # Shell dependent settings
>-case "$0" in
>+SHELLNAME_TMP1=`mktemp`
>+SHELLNAME_TMP2=`mktemp`
>+echo $0 > $SHELLNAME_TMP1
>+tr [:upper:] [:lower:] < $SHELLNAME_TMP1 > $SHELLNAME_TMP2
>+case `cat $SHELLNAME_TMP2` in
>  bash     | -bash     | */bash | \
>  bash.exe | -bash.exe | */bash.exe )
>   # Set a HOSTNAME variable
>@@ -122,6 +126,8 @@
>   PS1='$ '
>   ;;
>  esac
>+rm $SHELLNAME_TMP1
>+rm $SHELLNAME_TMP2
>
>  export PS1
>
>
>
>
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