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From: "Schumacher, Gordon" <gordon_schumacher AT maxtor DOT com>
To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: RE: BASH crashes upon exiting function?
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:01:54 -0600
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# From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:eliz AT gnu DOT org]
# Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 5:08 AM
# To: Schumacher, Gordon
# Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
# Subject: Re: BASH crashes upon exiting function?
# 
# > From: "Schumacher, Gordon" <gordon_schumacher AT maxtor DOT com>
# > Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 16:45:48 -0600 
# > 
# > All of those configurations failed in exactly the same way, 
# > even if I modified the bootstrap script to skip steps - the
# > first time it hits a return (i.e., from a shell function)
# > BASH crashes, according to what I see from set -x.
# 
# What do you mean, exactly, by ``the first time it hits return''?
# Does ``return'' here means the end of the line, or something else?

Sorry, as in "return 0" - the "return from function" statement.

# Does Bash crash when it runs any other scripts?  For example, try
# writing a trivial script that just echoes some string and exits.

*smack* Should have thought of that.  I'll give that a shot today.

Probably I didn't think of that since I am but a rank amateur at
shell-scripting... I can do it, but I'm not that good at it.  I've
been kinda learning it as I go, out of self-defense.

Funny how that works - I know C, C++, and Perl, for instance - but
am not very good with basic "bash", hehe...