Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:31:10 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: shells/bash-4.0 port horribly broken Message-ID: <20090313023110.GB49078@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <76B7C6A4-B380-4224-AF69-03ABB1CE5175@lassitu.de> References: <20090311210322.GA17971@ozzmosis.com> <20090312073556.GA39778@ozzmosis.com> <20090312112958.4d0cac92.ehaupt@FreeBSD.org> <76B7C6A4-B380-4224-AF69-03ABB1CE5175@lassitu.de>
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:48:09PM +0100, Stefan Bethke wrote: >> The update still remains broken: >> [root@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@FreeBSD.org)
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