bash 4.2 patchlevel 28

[Sean Bruno]

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