Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:20:03 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax Message-ID: <44wsaj5564.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <20090321124859.GA27682@anton.digitaltorque.ca> (Michael P. Soulier's message of "Sat\, 21 Mar 2009 08\:49\:01 -0400") References: <20090321124859.GA27682@anton.digitaltorque.ca>
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"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> writes: > I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All > of a sudden when I login, my standard .profile and .bashrc are causing a bunch > of error messages, like so > > -bash: command substitution: line 39: syntax error near unexpected token `)' > -bash: command substitution: line 39: ` }")' > > It would see that bash no longer likes the $() command substitution syntax. > > Does that mean that it's defaulting to some sort of posix compatibility mode > now? That syntax *is* in Posix. Since the update to bash 4.0, the port needs to be built with bison instead of the system yacc. The port has been updated to do this; make sure you have version 1.111 of the port's Makefile. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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