cleaning a bit, including moving out some old docs, and renaming

[feisty_meow.git] / scripts / core / variables.sh

diff --git a/scripts/core/variables.sh b/scripts/core/variables.sh
index f3c1972a8cae23b67f9bc14cc9abfffa4d406ad9..868129259814bc69a4a8cd9335080ab4b74c32fe 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/core/variables.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/variables.sh
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 export PS1='\u@\h $ ';
 # sets the history length and max file size so we can get some long history around here.
 export HISTSIZE=1000000
-export HISTFILESIZE=2000000
+export HISTFILESIZE=8000000
   
 ##############
   
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ if [ -z "$NECHUNG" ]; then
   if [ -z "$FEISTY_MEOW_DIR" ]; then
     if [ -d "$HOME/feisty_meow" ]; then
       export FEISTY_MEOW_DIR="$HOME/feisty_meow"
-      export FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS="$FEISTY_MEOW_DIR/scripts"
+      export FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS="$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS"
     fi
   fi
   
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ if [ -z "$NECHUNG" ]; then
   ##############
   
   # umask sets a permission mask for all file creations.  the mask used here
-  # disallows writing by the "group" and "others" categories.
-  umask 022
+  # disallows writes by the "group" and disallows "others" completely.
+  umask 027
   # ulimit sets user limits.  we set the maximum allowed core dump file size
   # to zero, because it is obnoxious to see the core dumps from crashed
   # programs lying around everywhere.
@@ -100,10 +100,8 @@ if [ -z "$NECHUNG" ]; then
   
   # variables for perl.
   
-  export PERLLIB
-  if [ "$OS" != "Windows_NT" ]; then
-    PERLLIB+="/usr/lib/perl5"
-  else
+  export PERLLIB+="/usr/lib/perl5"
+  if [ "$OS" == "Windows_NT" ]; then
     export PERLIO=:perlio
       # choose perl's IO over the ms-windows version so we can handle file
       # bytes properly.
@@ -116,7 +114,7 @@ if [ -z "$NECHUNG" ]; then
       # check if there is a perl file present; add the folder to PERLLIB if so.
       ls $i/*.pl &>/dev/null
       if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-        PERLLIB+=":$i"
+        PERLLIB+=":$(dos_to_unix_path $i)"
       fi
     fi
   done
@@ -125,15 +123,17 @@ if [ -z "$NECHUNG" ]; then
   ##############
   
   # set this so nechung can find its data.
-  export NECHUNG=$FEISTY_MEOW_DIR/database/fortunes.dat
+  export NECHUNG=$FEISTY_MEOW_DIR/infobase/fortunes.dat
   
   # ensure we use the right kind of secure shell.
   export CVS_RSH=$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/security/ssh.sh
   export GIT_SSH=$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/security/ssh.sh
   
   # the base checkout list is just to update feisty_meow.  additional folder
-  # names can be added in your customized scripts.
-  export REPOSITORY_LIST="feisty_meow"
+  # names can be added in your customized scripts.  the space at the end of
+  # this variable is important and allows users to extend the list like:
+  #    export REPOSITORY_DIR+="muppets configs"
+  export REPOSITORY_LIST="feisty_meow "
   
   # initializes the feisty meow build variables, if possible.
   function initialize_build_variables()
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ if [ -z "$NECHUNG" ]; then
     # we need to know the feisty meow directory, or we bail.
     if [ -z "$FEISTY_MEOW_DIR" ]; then return; fi
     # pick from our expected generator folder, but make sure it's there...
-    buildvars="$FEISTY_MEOW_DIR/scripts/generator/build_variables.sh"
+    buildvars="$FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/generator/build_variables.sh"
     if [ -f "$buildvars" ]; then
       # yep, that one looks good, so pull in the build defs.
       source "$buildvars" "$buildvars"
@@ -154,9 +154,9 @@ if [ -z "$NECHUNG" ]; then
       # up the path to it here based on the operating system.
       export BINDIR=$FEISTY_MEOW_DIR/production/binaries
       # add binaries created within build to the path.
-      export PATH="$BINDIR:$PATH"
+      export PATH="$(dos_to_unix_path $BINDIR):$PATH"
       # Shared libraries are located via this variable.
-      export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$BINDIR"
+      export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(dos_to_unix_path $LD_LIBRARY_PATH):$(dos_to_unix_path $BINDIR)"
     fi
   }
   
@@ -175,11 +175,9 @@ if [ -z "$NECHUNG" ]; then
   
   ##############
   
-  # set the path for locating applications.  this is done after any
+  # add to the PATH variables used for locating applications.  this step is taken after any
   # potential overrides from the user.
-  #export PATH="$(dos_to_msys_path $BINDIR):$(dos_to_msys_path $FEISTY_MEOW_GENERATED):$PATH:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/games:/usr/bin:."
-  export PATH="$FEISTY_MEOW_GENERATED:$PATH:/sbin:."
-###noise! :/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/lib:/usr/games:/usr/bin:.
+  export PATH="$(dos_to_unix_path $FEISTY_MEOW_GENERATED):$PATH:$(find /usr/local/games -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec echo -n {}: ';' 2>/dev/null)/sbin"
   
   ##############