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Date:      Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:36:48 -0400
From:      matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shells/bash-4.0 port horribly broken
Message-ID:  <28283d910903160736w6a2a903fo72a56370b7077e2b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090313023110.GB49078@dragon.NUXI.org>
References:  <20090311210322.GA17971@ozzmosis.com> <20090312073556.GA39778@ozzmosis.com> <20090312112958.4d0cac92.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> <76B7C6A4-B380-4224-AF69-03ABB1CE5175@lassitu.de> <20090313023110.GB49078@dragon.NUXI.org>

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:31 PM, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:48:09PM +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> >> The update still remains broken:
> >> [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.
>
> I didn't have issues with my ~/.bashrc when I updated from 3.2 to 4.0 so
> I didn't notice this issue.  (guess I'm too old school and use "`"'s).
>
> --
> -- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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I m not sure if the bash-4.0 port has the current patchset but I know it
fixes some issues with $()



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