Fwd: bash on unstable10x is broken

[Bruno Haible]

The bug report about the OpenCSW bash binary:

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Subject: bash on unstable10x is broken
Date: Dienstag, 27. Februar 2024, 18:13:44 CET
From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: Dagobert Michelsen <dam@opencsw.org>
CC: Mohammad-Reza Nabipoor <mnabipoor@gnu.org>

Hi Dagobert,

Mohammad has found a bug in /opt/csw/bin/bash:
When running the configure script of a specific package
(~haible/poke-3.90.4-maint-3-g1ddd5-dirty.tar.gz),
it produces a syntax error in jitter/configure:
  ../../jitter/configure: line 35977: syntax error near unexpected token `;;'
  ../../jitter/configure: line 35977: `rm -f core conftest.err 
conftest.$ac_objext conftest.beam conftest.$ac_ext ;;'

When, instead of using /opt/csw/bin/bash,
  1. I build bash-5.2.21 myself, from source,
  2. install it in an empty directory $HOME/good-bash/x86,
  3. put this directory at the front of my PATH,
  4. $ export CONFIG_SHELL=$HOME/good-bash/x86/bash
  5. run the configure script,
it succeeds.

When I set
  $ export CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/csw/bin/bash
instead, I get the syntax error again.

This proves that /opt/csw/bin/bash is buggy.

Bruno




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