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Re: chunkPackage Script Bug in 3.0

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From: Doug Wiebe
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:53
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Kurt A. Geisel writes:
> When I run the chunkPackage script under 3.0, the shell barfs with
> the message that "destDir" is an undefined variable.

This bug occurs when the -d switch is not passed to chunkPackage or when  
"-d ." is passed. A workaround is to use the -d switch with an absolute  
pathname.

Here are diffs for a fix:

117c117
<     set destDir = .                   # OLD
---
>     set destDir = `/bin/pwd`          # NEW

Hope that helps.

Doug Wiebe
Software Engineering
NeXT Computer, Inc.
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From: doug_wiebe@next.com (Doug Wiebe)
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Subject: Re: chunkPackage Script Bug in 3.0
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Date: 12 Oct 92 22:53:46 GMT
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