openapp woes in Debian unstable?

[Kristian Rink]

Hi all,

just slowly trying to get working with GNUstep (once again, but this
time motivated to get a little further): I am running the GNUstep
packages taken from current Debian Sid (unstable), and so far most of
the things work well except for one thing: The debian packages come with
a script called "openapp" to actually invoke GNUstep applications using
an xterm no matter whether actually running GNUstep. However I can't get
any applications started this way; each time I try doing something like

openapp Terminal.app

my system is about to run into a neverending loop until finally memory
is filled up and the system kernel starts killing processes. Though I
know some things about shell scripts, I don't yet understand the full
bunch of tools shipped with GNUstep so I'm still learning to handle all
this. This is what Debian's "openapp" / "opentool" looks like:




#! /bin/sh

if [ -z "$GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES" ]; then
    . /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Library/Makefiles/GNUstep.sh
fi

[ `opentool gdomap -L GDNCServer | grep -c Found` = '0' ] && opentool gdnc

tool=$(basename "$0")
opentool "$tool" "$@"


Can anyone enlighten me what might be wrong with that?

TIA and bye,
Kris


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