shells/bash-4.0 port horribly broken

[Jerry]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:48:09 +0100
Stefan Bethke <stb at 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 Either /usr/ports/shells/bash/distinfo is out of date, or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 at portjail ~]$ pkg_info
>> bash-static-4.0.10_1 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
>>
>> [root at portjail ~]$ set -x
>> [root at 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 am having the exact same problem. Several of my scripts are now
failing. I have modified a few with the older "`" tic method to make
them work; however, I feel that the easiest thing would be to simply
revert to Bash-3.

Was this some sort of 'improvement' by the Bash developers, or is it an
un-squashed bug?

-- 
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com


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