[Gambas-user] SHELL not working (GB_DIR)

[Benoît Minisini]

> Jesus Guardon escribió:
> > Benoît Minisini escribió:
> >>> Hi all
> >>>
> >>> I am experimenting with the GB_DIR environment variable, and I've made
> >>> a deb package with my program to install it in /opt. The current dir
> >>> structure is as follows:
> >>>
> >>> jesus at ...2151...:~$ tree /opt
> >>> /opt
> >>> `-- dfhlog
> >>>
> >>>     |-- dfhlog.gambas
> >>>
> >>>     `-- gambas2
> >>>
> >>>         |-- bin
> >>>         |
> >>>         |   |-- gbr2 -> gbx2
> >>>         |
> >>>         |   `-- gbx2
> >>>
> >>>         `-- lib
> >>>             `-- gambas2
> >>>
> >>>                 |-- gb.component
> >>>                 |-- gb.corba.component
> >>>                 |-- ... etc
> >>>
> >>>                 ...etc...
> >>>
> >>> I am calling my executable from a bash script located in /usr/local/bin
> >>>
> >>> jesus at ...2151...:~$ cat /usr/local/bin/dfhlog
> >>> #!/bin/sh
> >>> export PATH=/opt/dfhlog/gambas2/bin
> >>> export GB_DIR=/opt/dfhlog/gambas2
> >>> exec /opt/dfhlog/dfhlog.gambas
> >>>
> >>> (In this case, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not used, because they already are in
> >>> my system).
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Thanks Benoît
> >
> > Surprisingly, after a recompile, it works as expected! May be I was
> > using an old executable file (dfhlog.gambas). Sorry for my mistake 8-(
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Jesús
> 
> Hi again
> 
> Continuing my testings on GB_DIR, I'm running into a new problem: SHELL
> command has no effect at all. All sentences using SHELL are not
> executed. As you can guess, running my project executable the normal way
> (not using GB_DIR) it is running right. Could this be a bug?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Jesús
> 

SHELL is just an equivalent of EXEC ["sh", "-c", "XXX"] where "XXX" is the 
string passed to the SHELL command.

Do you have any error message from gambas? I need as many details as possible!

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini