Re: Input line wrapping broken in 4.3.27 if built using included libtermcap

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/28/14, 7:02 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 27
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>   This is a bug affecting the latest of the shellshock patches at the time of 
>   writing, 4.3.27.  If bash is configured and built on a system with no 
>   libtermcap, it attempts to build statically linking its own one.  In this 
>   case, the resulting bash that is built does not correctly wrap long input 
>   lines.

Well, sure.  The included libtermcap is enough for bash to link
successfully and run, but it doesn't know anything about your terminal
and doesn't know how to read all the termcap/terminfo files out there.
It can do really basic character movement, but that's about it.

This has always been the case.  There's nothing about patches 25-27
that introduced any changes here.

Chet

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