shells/bash-4.0 port horribly broken

[matt donovan]

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

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:48:09PM +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> >> The update still remains broken:
> >> [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 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 at 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 $()