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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:35:15 -0500
From: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold AT buddydog DOT org>
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Subject: maintaining bash
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If no one has stepped forward, I'd be willing to try and maintain the
bash package. Unfortunately, I know nothing about the whole process, and
the Packages page confuses me, so you'll have to guide me along gently.

Here's what I've done so far:

* Download the bash-3.0 source
* Built it successfully

I don't know what to do with the patches that I find in the

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.0-patches/

folder. How do you apply patches for GNU source? I know it is more of a GNU
question, but it is a step to getting the Cygwin package done, so I'm hoping
for some help.  I don't see any mention in any of the files found in the
bash src folder on how to apply patches.

BTW, the source package downloaded for the current Bash-2.05 does not, in
fact, build "out of the box".  Not sure if that matters or not. I get a
complaint about redfined gethostname.

-- 
Jonathan Arnold     (mailto:jdarnold AT buddydog DOT org)
Amazing Developments       http://www.buddydog.org

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. -
  William H. Mauldin


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