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- From: hohmuth@freia.freia.inf.tu-dresden.de (Michael Hohmuth)
- Subject: Re: Problems with (MiNT-)BASH and GNU configure scripts
- In-Reply-To: jensk@hpbbrd.bbn.hp.com's message of Wed, 22 Jul 1992 10:34:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <HOHMUTH.92Jul23175328@freia.freia.inf.tu-dresden.de>
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- Organization: TU-Dresden, Dept. of Computer Science, Germany
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:53:28 GMT
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- In article <9130023@hpbbrd.bbn.hp.com> jensk@hpbbrd.bbn.hp.com (Jens Kilian) writes:
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- > Has anybody used BASH (the MiNT-aware version) to run one of the configuration
- > scripts supplied for the recent versions of various GNU utilities (fileutils,
- > grep, ...) ?
- > Whatever I try, BASH tells me that there are syntax errors in the script.
- > If I run the script via 'bash configure', I get one specific error; if I run
- > it from BASH by '. configure' or 'source configure', I get a different one.
- > Needless to say, if I isolate part of the script and run BASH on it, it works
- > just fine.
- >
- > Has anybody seen this? Is it a bug in BASH? Am I doing something wrong?
-
- I had the same problems with Bash. I switched to the sh compatible shell
- that has been announced here recently (ash), and it worked well (although
- ash has some other caveats (weird current directory so that cd fails
- sometimes...)).
-
- Greetings,
- Michael
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