bash 4.2 patchlevel 28

[Jason Hellenthal]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 07:44:39AM +0200, Trond Endrest?l wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2012 13:07-0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> 
> > Noted that the following syntax is broken somewhere between 4.2
> > patchlevel 10 and 28.  I'm sure its because we shouldn't be doing that
> > over here at big purple, but we do ... and its a PITA.  I'm bisecting to
> > find out what is going on.
> > 
> > test:
> > VARIABLE="$(uname)"
> > bash: command substitution: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token
> > `)'
> > bash: command substitution: line 3: `uname)"'
> > 
> > Odd, but his works at patchlevel 10
> 
> I'm unable to reproduce this behaviour on one of my systems:
> 
> trond at enterprise:~>bash --version
> GNU bash, version 4.2.28(0)-release (amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0)
> Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> 
> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> trond at enterprise:~>my_var="$(uname)"
> trond at enterprise:~>echo $my_var
> FreeBSD
> trond at enterprise:~>
> 
> I'm not sure what's going on in your case.
> 

Same here but on 8.3-STABLE i386 no errors found throughout any of the
tests.


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