shells/bash-4.0 port horribly broken
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 12 19:46:09 PDT 2009
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).
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-- David (obrien at FreeBSD.org)
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