Re: (IMPORTANT/URGENT) Regarding Missing Files in bash source code?

[Greg Wooledge]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:09:48PM +0800, Humanities Clinic wrote:
> version.c:27:10: fatal error: 'version.h' file not found

> jobs.c:72:10: fatal error: 'builtins/builtext.h' file not found

> I double-checked the original folder in
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.2.57.tar.gz. It's true these files are
> missing.
> 
> May I know why is this so, and how this can be rectified?

These files are generated during the build process.

Did you run "./configure" (or some equivalent) before running "make"?
Were there any errors during the configure stage?  Were there any
earlier errors during the make stage?

The version.h file in a bash-3.2 build tree should look something like
this:


/* Version control for the shell.  This file gets changed when you say
   `make version.h' to the Makefile.  It is created by mkversion. */

/* The distribution version number of this shell. */
#define DISTVERSION "3.2"

/* The last built version of this shell. */
#define BUILDVERSION 1

/* The release status of this shell. */
#define RELSTATUS "release"

/* A version string for use by sccs and the what command. */
#define SCCSVERSION "@(#)Bash version 3.2.0(1) release GNU"



During the make stage of the build, you should have seen something
like this:


/bin/sh ./support/mkversion.sh -b -S . -s release -d 3.2 -o newversion.h \
        && mv newversion.h version.h


If that step didn't occur, or if there was an error during it, then
that would explain why your version.h file wasn't generated.