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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2006 05:04:58 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bash 3.1.10 breaks configure scripts (was Re: configure scripts ignores parameters)
Message-ID:  <20060306130458.GA62638@pentarou.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <440A62B0.3040703@rogers.com>
References:  <200603042106.k24L6xEA008490@taurus.jpl.nasa.gov> <440A31BC.2060701@rogers.com> <20060305034931.GA67813@xor.obsecurity.org> <440A62B0.3040703@rogers.com>

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On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:01:52PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:33:00PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> >  
> >>Shouldn't the port be marked broken or reverted to a working copy in
> >>that case?
> >>    
> >
> >The preference is to fix it, of course, but if that can't happen in
> >the next day or two we'll do one or the other for the releases.
> >
> >Kris
> 
> Agreed. I've emailed bug-bash@gnu.org about this.

While we're on the subject of bash 3.x port breakage: the bash author
has released patchlevel 11 which fixes double-quotes strings that
contain variables surrounded by apostrophes (i.e. "'$foobar'").  It
would be good to see this added as well...

Problem:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2006-01/msg00033.html

Patch:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.1-patches/bash31-011
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.1-patches/bash31-011.sig

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
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