[Swift-devel] bash profile emitting text causes md5sum to be not located

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 11:12 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On teraport, my .bash_profile emits some information to stdout at login.
> 
> That causes bootstrap.sh to be unable to get confused (it takes the 
> bash_profile output to be the name of the md5sum executable, and then is 
> unable to execute).
> 
> This change stops that happening for me:
> 
> -MD5SUM=`find 'which gmd5sum'`
> +MD5SUM=`which gmd5sum`
>  if [ "X$MD5SUM" == "X" ]; then
> -       MD5SUM=`find 'which md5sum'`
> +       MD5SUM=`which md5sum`
> 
> This is because the find command (which is a shell procedure in this case, 
> not unix find) first invokes the command, and if it gives no output, 
> invokes it again with a bash login shell, which then does give output in 
> the gmd5sum case when it should not.
> 
> I think maybe that this should not happen in the bowels of the bootstrap 
> script - either the environment is correctly initialised for the whole 
> bootstrap script, or it is not.

Well, obviously you can't have it all. This is why I put the change in
in the first place.

So hang on. I'm working on it.