Mail Archives: djgpp/2010/04/01/11:36:06
31.03.2010 19:11, Robert Riebisch kirjoitti:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> Do you have the latest v2.04 ports of Bash, Sed, and related
>> utilities? If not, please upgrade and try again.
>
> Not always a good idea. Bash.exe from 'beta/v2gnu/bsh205bbr3.zip'
> crashes silently very often for me, where Bash.exe from
> 'current/v2gnu/bsh204br3.zip' works fine for me.
>
It is not very surprising unfortunately.
I also have noticed that old port of bash-2.0.4 is more stable rather
than one of bash-2.0.5b even after all fixes done for DJGPP.
Perhaps it was not so noticeable several years ago as configure
and other scripts used them most likely smaller subset of bash
features rather than now. As result more bugs of DJGPP ports are
exposed now.
For example I failed to build gcc-4.4.3 for DJGPP (libtool related
failure when building libstdc++-v3) and also similar failure for
binutils-2.20.
I do not have time now to try to fix these problems in the current ports
of bash. The same also an attempt to port newer versions of bash.
Sometimes long ago I tried to do that with bash-3.0, but never reached
even that level of stability that we have with 2.0.5b.
I'm afraid that attempts to port new versions of many GNU software
packages for DJGPP may soon come to end unless we have better port of BASH
or some other compatible enough shell.
Andris
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