Patch for problems with profile script in Win9x

[Paul Galbraith]

That's purely a function of my shell scripting abilities...you're way 
seems a lot easier!

Karl M wrote:
> 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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