R devel - Dec 2005 - (PR#8363) R CMD INSTALL fails if cd prints stuff to stdout

What shells are these?  You don't give an example that causes trouble, and 
in particular no way to reproduce this.

The behaviour you describe is prohibited by the POSIX standard, so the 
problem would appear to be with the unnamed shell.  I can see how it could 
happen if a user redefines 'cd', but then a user could redefine all the 
commands in his OS and we have to make some reasonable assumptions

You seem not to have submitted a patch against the R sources, which 
contain src/scripts/INSTALL.in, not INSTALL, and it contains changes you 
do not mention.

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 p.lijnzaad at med.uu.nl wrote:
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> Dear all,
>
> I came across puzzling behaviour of R CMD INSTALL, which I tracked down to
the
> fact that in some shells (or in some user customizations of them), the cd
> command prints out the new directory. As a result, the $pkgs variable gets
a
> wrong value, e.g.in the following transcript:
>
> philip at gen031:tmp$ R CMD INSTALL  GlobalAncova
> /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL: line 873: cd: /home/philip/tmp/GlobalAncova
> /var/tmp/philip/misc/GlobalAncova: No such file or directory
> sed: can't read DESCRIPTION: No such file or directory
> ERROR: no 'Package' field in 'DESCRIPTION'
> philip at gen031:tmp$
>
> The error at line 873 is due to the variable $pkgs containing the string
> '/home/philip/tmp/GlobalAncova
> /var/tmp/philip/misc/GlobalAncova'
>
> (i.e. including the new line. Incidentally, /home/philip/tmp dir is a
symlink
> to /var/tmp/philip/misc; hence the non-identical directory names).
>
> A simple fix (cd "${1}" > /dev/null 2>&1 &&
${GETWD}) takes care of this, and
> should work under sh, ksh, bourne shell, zsh. A context diff is attached; I
> hope this will prove useful. Kind regards,
>
>
>                                                                      
Philip
>
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> Philip Lijnzaad
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> Dept. of Biomedical Genetics
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> *** INSTALL~	Wed Jun 22 11:09:59 2005
> --- INSTALL	Fri Dec  2 17:08:50 2005
> ***************
> *** 127,136 ****
>  get_packages () {
>    ## get the full path names to all packages contained in $1.
>    ## NOTE: modifies pkgs!
>    if grep "^Contains:" "${1}/DESCRIPTION"
>/dev/null; then
>      bundlepkg=`get_dcf_field Contains "${1}/DESCRIPTION"`
>      for p in ${bundlepkg}; do
> !       pkgs="${pkgs} \"`cd "${1}/${p}" &&
${GETWD}`\""
>        if test -f "${1}/${p}/DESCRIPTION.in"; then
>          ## Try being defensive about missing final newlines, or extra
>  	## empty lines.
> --- 127,138 ----
>  get_packages () {
>    ## get the full path names to all packages contained in $1.
>    ## NOTE: modifies pkgs!
> +   PROMPT_COMMAND> +   BASH_COMMAND>    if grep
"^Contains:" "${1}/DESCRIPTION" >/dev/null; then
>      bundlepkg=`get_dcf_field Contains "${1}/DESCRIPTION"`
>      for p in ${bundlepkg}; do
> !       pkgs="${pkgs} \"`cd "${1}/${p}>/dev/null
2>&1" && ${GETWD}`\""
>        if test -f "${1}/${p}/DESCRIPTION.in"; then
>          ## Try being defensive about missing final newlines, or extra
>  	## empty lines.
> ***************
> *** 139,145 ****
>        fi
>      done
>    else
> !     pkgs="${pkgs} \"`cd "${1}" &&
${GETWD}`\""
>    fi
>  }
>
> --- 141,147 ----
>        fi
>      done
>    else
> !     pkgs="${pkgs} \"`cd "${1}" > /dev/null
2>&1 && ${GETWD}`\""
>    fi
>  }
>
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