syntax error in startup script generated by 'activator dist' in play-2.3.3

[jn73]

I initially reported this bug to the playframework project (playframework/playframework#3324). I was told that it belonged here, so here we go..:

After upgrading our application from play 2.2 => 2.3.3 the startup-script won't run on our (old) linux server.

output:

./bin/dashboard
./bin/dashboard: line 140: syntax error near unexpected token "$1"' ./bin/dashboard: line 140: java_args+=( "$1" )'

bash -version
GNU bash, version 3.00.15(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Yes, it's an old bash-version running on an old redhat server. Unfortunately that is out of my control. The script works fine when i run it on my macbook.

[muuki88]

Yeah, you already figured out the problem. The too old bash version.
You can provide your own startup file with a fix on this.

This line was introduced in #267

[jn73]

After overriding the bash-template file (i used the one from sbt-native-packager v0.6.3) everything works just fine. Thanks for your help!

[muuki88]

Nice. Just of curiosity, what Java version do you use?
The version of this bash script has a lot of fixes missing, you may try the version before #267

[jn73]

Thanks for the tip. I will try that one instead. The java version is 1.6.0-18