RE: newbie: Out of order execution in script

[Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: schwarza@gdls.com [mailto:schwarza@gdls.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 11:58 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: newbie: Out of order execution in script
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm using the latest 'stable' version of cygwin (1.1.5) on a 
> Win95 platform
> It looks like a script was executed after the statement following the
> script started - out of order execution. Is this possible?
> 
> In a script I execute:
> 
> importScript=<path>/import.sh
> importMain=<filename>
> tmp=/tmp/$$.gnatmake
> gnatI=${tmp}/gnatI
> outImp=${tmp}/<filename>
> 
> ${importScript} ${importMain} ${tmp}
> 
> sed -e '/(/d'                             \
>     -e 's@/kostabi@@'                     \
>     -e 's@^@\ -aI/kostabi@'               \
>     -e 's@/@\\@g'           ${outImp}.imp > ${gnatI}
> 
> The messages below are:
> 
> [1] sed: can't read 
> /tmp/398883.gnatmake/device_control_main.imp: No such
> file or directory
> 
> [2] Main file:  device_control_main
> 
> which come in the exact order shown.
> 
> The issue is that message [2] is output by the 
> ${importScript} line, and
> message [1] indicates that the script has not executed.
> 
> In looking at ${tmp} I do see a successful generation of the 
> output file
> (${outImp}.imp) indicating that the statement before the 'sed' was run
> successfully. I'm guessing that the 'sed' was executed before 
> the script
> was started, and failed because the output file was not 
> generated. This
> script ran successfully under cywin-b20.1 and I don't see 
> what I'm doing
> wrong.
> 
> Any idea what I did?
> 

What would be interesting would be to describe what your "import.sh" script
is doing; sure it does not start a workhorse process in the background the
exit?

Just an idea :-)

	Bernard

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