Yes it can be closed. The bundle file is for installing VMware-Player. Though
not officially supported it appears others have installed this, I will try
your suggestions and research this further.
Thanks
Paul
Sent from my iPod
On Aug 6, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Oliver Fromme <o...@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
>> 02:36:49 UTC 2010
>> r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>>> Description:
>> The script fails on these two lines so far; "stat" and "od"
>>
>> # This won't work with non-GNU stat.
>> FILE_SIZE=`stat --format "%s" "$0"`
>> offset=$(($FILE_SIZE - 4))
>
> 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:
>
> FILE_SIZE=`stat -f %z "$0"`
>
> 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.
>
>> # XXX: put extraction in its own function
>> MAGIC_NUMBER=`od -An -t u4 -N 4 -j $MAGIC_OFFSET "$file" | tr -d ' '`
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> As this is not a bug in FreeBSD, I suggest that this PR can
> be closed. Do you agree?
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
>
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