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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Dependency Based Build
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 18, 2023

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Documentation doesn't mention soft link for /usr/bin/env which seems to be needed for scripts to work properly

Having this mentioned in documentation may save a big number of hours of debugging everyone's first build process with DBB and groove. The user responsible for running dbb builds has Bash set as their default shell (configured via OMVS PROGRAM setting) since it's needed for the gitlab runner. The build process involves executing DBB_HOME/bin/groovez, which begins with "#!/bin/sh" as the interpreter in its first line. That script, in turn, calls DBB_HOME/groovy/bin/groovy, which uses "#/usr/bin/env sh" as its shebang. This is where the problem arises. Process breaks. Until we either: 

Create a soft link: /bin/env -> /usr/bin/env. 
Change the shebang in groovy/bin/groovy to: #!/bin/env sh
Change the shebang in the main groovyz script to: #!/bin/bash

It has been discussed in the GitHub IBM/DBB group that the soft link is the best solution, as it is already equired for other products like Python anyway. Please make a note on this in the documentation if this is in fact a preferred way  for dealing with this issue. 

https://github.com/IBM/dbb/issues/171

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