From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 20:53:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB24F1065673; Thu, 24 May 2012 20:53:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com (mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.253.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86FB38FC0C; Thu, 24 May 2012 20:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (rideseveral.corp.yahoo.com [10.73.160.231]) by mrout1-b.corp.bf1.yahoo.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/y.out) with ESMTP id q4OKrOWU029254; Thu, 24 May 2012 13:53:25 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=yahoo-inc.com; s=cobra; t=1337892805; bh=1zclvbFsIdkRyB2A0f4+ueA1BRxSLWpRhJLTLGzmhws=; h=Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date: Message-ID:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=JznRafgc3xecL2ZjRmYcDtTO6qkVbyAazfvE29luH5YZdrNZRU5If3/ZKxSdCK5Ls DWhrKiw2jC88Tez4ehWVXW5rT2BwmxsSOlCf8Nd2NSga5xUBckiehLKur5E5H6OzGd 9uJGTJykSvq8JxOopPjpkV61qKAcv6W5m4/FlAKg= From: Sean Bruno To: "sbruno@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <1337890494.2709.18.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com> References: <1337890075.2709.16.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com> <1337890494.2709.18.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 13:53:24 -0700 Message-ID: <1337892804.2709.20.camel@powernoodle-l7.corp.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Milter-Version: master.31+4-gbc07cd5+ X-CLX-ID: 892804003 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: bash 4.2 patchlevel 28 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 20:53:58 -0000 On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 13:14 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 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 > > > > sean > > At least that was easy. It's patch level 12. Sequential sort pays > dividends today. > > Sean > 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. sean