[kde-freebsd] Re: patch needed for Xsession

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

At Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:39:58 -0600,
M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 
>   On 10/27/2010 17:38, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > At Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:59:37 -0400,
> > Kris Moore wrote:
> >> I've gone ahead and fixed the Xsession we ship in PC-BSD, however
> >> this won't correct it for FreeBSD KDE users. This file is generated
> >> when the user runs "genkdmconf", and I confimed that it still produces the
> >> broken Xsession. We'll need to get it fixed there for everybody :)
> > Do you know when genkdmconf is usually run? I think there is no
> > problem in patching the ports tree, but if we're to commit this fix
> > upstream, it'd be good to first know the outcome of Warner's
> > discussion with jilles@ abou the right POSIX shell behaviour.
> It 'accidentally works' on Linux.  'expect' and 'expect -p' produce the 
> same output.  and /bin/sh -c expect -p really is the same as /bin/sh -c 
> expect, per POSIX parsing rules of -c.  I'm pretty sure that its 
> required for other systems as well, since it is broken there as well.
> 
> It sounds like FreeBSD's shell is posix compliant in this regard, so it 
> isn't a bug to be fixed there.

Alright, so the problem's that -p is currently being interpreted as a
parameter to /bin/sh itself, not to the export command?