Re: Bash-5.0 Official patch 7

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/22/19 1:54 PM, Vladimir Marek wrote:

> Bash is one of the components we follow closely, so I'll be filing
> internal bugs to update to latest patch level tomorrow. The Makefile
> lists requirements
> 
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += library/ncurses
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += shell/ksh93
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += terminal/screen
> 
> screen is needed for testing only (as the tests can be executed remotely
> without having real terminal available). 

Why do you require ksh93? Is there an included shell script that requires
it?


> Bash uses configure.mk build style
> 
> https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/make-rules/configure.mk

None of these are required unless you want to change the included configure
script. I do prefer GNU make, though it's not required.

> Which lists more dependencies
> 
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/autoconf
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/automake
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/gnu-make
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/libtool
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/pkg-config
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/macro/gnu-m4
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += file/gnu-coreutils
> REQUIRED_PACKAGES += library/libtool/libltdl



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