Re: su -c now fatal on Mac? was Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed 0.9.1 Release

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:23:04PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> Previously, despite receiving the warning on Mac
> 
>       MacBook:bootstrap root# sh ./upgrade-db.sh 14 15
>       su: illegal option -- c usage: su [-] [-flm] [login [args]] 
> 
> the bootstrapper used to run, see
> 
>       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2010-07/msg00088.html
> 
> however trying to run the updater now fails immediately back to the command 
> prompt. I cannot find a
> 
>       bootstrap-latest.log

Running "upgrade-db.sh 14 15" will not produce a
"bootstrap-latest.log" but rather an "update_db-v14_v15.log".

Given what you seem to run and what you expect to find:

Do you already *have* a gnumed_v14 which you wish to upgrade ?
 
> ... is it possible the failure was so early as to have not yet gotten to it?

That is possible, yes.

> Suggestions?

Does it show *anything* in the console window ?

What is the exact shell this is running under ?

Does that shell support

        set -e
        set -o pipefail

?  The script forces /bin/bash but maybe the MacOSX bash is
either rather old or else /bin/bash is linked to something
else ?

Karsten
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