Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:06:07 +0200 From: "Andrew W. Nosenko" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shells/bash-4.0 port horribly broken Message-ID: <6161f3180903120706y7af9a7efja2d3c669e0f78159@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <76B7C6A4-B380-4224-AF69-03ABB1CE5175@lassitu.de> References: <20090311210322.GA17971@ozzmosis.com> <20090312073556.GA39778@ozzmosis.com> <20090312112958.4d0cac92.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> <76B7C6A4-B380-4224-AF69-03ABB1CE5175@lassitu.de>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> wrote:
> Am 12.03.2009 um 11:29 schrieb Emanuel Haupt:
>
>>>> $ sudo make
>>>> ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
>>>> => bash-4.tar.gz is not in /usr/ports/shells/bash/distinfo.
>>>> => Either /usr/ports/shells/bash/distinfo is out of date, or
>>>> => bash-4.tar.gz is spelled incorrectly.
>>>> *** Error code 1
>>>>
>>>> Stop in /usr/ports/shells/bash.
>>>
>>> Update: After a recent ports tree update bash now builds correctly
>>> here.
>>
>> The update still remains broken:
>>
>> [fooman@portjail ~]$ pkg_info
>> bash-static-4.0.10_1 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
>>
>> [root@portjail ~]$ set -x
>> [root@portjail ~]$ echo $(uname)
>> -bash: command substitution: line 25: syntax error near unexpected token
>> `)'
>> -bash: command substitution: line 25: `uname)'
>
> I also find this rather annoying. I believe that a rather large percentage
> of people use bash as their default shell, so moving from 3.2 to 4.0 should
> have been preceded by a headsup or an entry in UPDATING.
Hmm... But record in UPDATING won't cure the bug itself. Or error in
the parsing
$ echo $(ls)
construct is not a bug? If it is not a bug but intended behavior,
then could someone point me to the appropriate part of documentation?
--
Andrew W. Nosenko <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>
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