Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:15:37 -0400 From: Paul <eb30750@gmail.com> To: "eb30750@gmail.com" <eb30750@gmail.com>, "freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>, "bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG" <bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd Message-ID: <F0978CEB-9927-44CD-AE9A-917C2220A672@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201008060712.o767Cemx023503@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <201008060712.o767Cemx023503@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Yes it can be closed. The bundle file is for installing VMware-Player. Tho=
ugh not officially supported it appears others have installed this, I will t=
ry your suggestions and research this further.
Thanks
Paul
Sent from my iPod
On Aug 6, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Paul Lambert wrote:
>>> Number: 149335
>>> Category: misc
>>> Synopsis: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd
>> [...]
>>> Environment:
>> FreeBSD BRSINC-VM02.local 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 0=
2:36:49 UTC 2010 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC=
amd64
>>> Description:
>> The script fails on these two lines so far; "stat" and "od"
>>=20
>> # This won't work with non-GNU stat.
>> FILE_SIZE=3D`stat --format "%s" "$0"`
>> offset=3D$(($FILE_SIZE - 4))
>=20
> As the comment suggests, that command is non-portable and
> works with GNU stat (linux) only. This is not a standard.
> The equivalent BSD command line would be:
>=20
> FILE_SIZE=3D`stat -f %z "$0"`
>=20
> I wonder why the script even needs to find out its own size,
> and then read binary data from itself?!? Is this some kind
> of "copy protection" or similar tricks? If so, I suspect
> that it is highly non-portable and will be difficult to get
> to run on anything else than linux.
>=20
>> # XXX: put extraction in its own function
>> MAGIC_NUMBER=3D`od -An -t u4 -N 4 -j $MAGIC_OFFSET "$file" | tr -d ' '`=
>=20
> This command works fine on FreeBSD 8.1. If it doesn't work
> in the context of the script, I suspect that it is caused
> by preceding problems that set one of the variables to a
> wrong value.
>=20
> As a work-around, you might try running the script with
> /compat/linux/bin/sh instead of /bin/sh. You need to
> enable Linux compatibility ("kldload linux") and install
> ports/emulators/linux_base-f10 if you don't have it already.
>=20
> As this is not a bug in FreeBSD, I suggest that this PR can
> be closed. Do you agree?
>=20
> Best regards
> Oliver
>=20
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