bash 4.2 patchlevel 28

[Christian Weisgerber]

Sean Bruno <seanbru at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

> > > VARIABLE="$(uname)"
> > > bash: command substitution: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token
> > > `)'
> > > bash: command substitution: line 3: `uname)"'
> > > 
> > At least that was easy.  It's patch level 12.

That's just the first patch that happens to touch parse.y.

> Hrm ... and it also appears that if I use bison + m4 I don't have this
> issue, but if I let the configure scripts use /usr/bin/yacc alone this
> problem manifests itself.  odd.

The port specifically uses bison, so I don't know why you would
force the use of yacc.  And it's a well-known issue.  If you run
parse.y through yacc, it breaks.  You must use bison.

Upstream thinks it's a bug in yacc unless proven otherwise and so
far nobody has figured out the details.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de