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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 23:19:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Angelo Graziosi <Angelo DOT Graziosi AT roma1 DOT infn DOT it>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Problems with ash-20040127-3 (Attn: bash maintainer)
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
> 
> > Last morning I have made a build of ROOT (a CERN application) using the
> > snapshot 20050705, bash-3.0-3-test, ash-20040127-1, coreutils-5.3.0-6
> > GCC-3.3.3-3. The buid takes almost 1.5 h
> >
> > After upgrading to bash-3.0-7, ash-20040127-3, coreutils-5.3.0-7 I have
> > tried a new build. This time the buid stopped after a few minutes with:
> >
> >    wingcc_ld.sh: unespected end of file... at line 12 and 31
> >
> > Perhaps should one to change someting in this *.sh file (see Attc.) ?
> >
> > /bin/sh in /bin/ash ? or in /bin/bash ?
> 
> Yep.  The new /bin/sh is bash.  Apparently, bash doesn't like the
> following line:
> 
> if [ "`echo $dllname | sed 's{^lib/.*\.dll${{'`" != "$dllname" ]; then
> 
> because in bash, ${ has special meaning -- it starts a variable reference.
> FWIW, I get the same error with "bash -n wingcc_ld.sh" when bash is
> version 2.05b.  I suspect this may actually be a bug in bash, since single
> quotes ought to stop it from trying to expand variable references.  This
> only happens when the single quotes are inside a shell substitution (i.e.,
> "echo '${'" works, but "echo `echo '${'`" doesn't).  Nevertheless,
> changing the '{' to any other character (e.g., '#') in the sed script
> makes it parse correctly.
> 	Igor
> 


Downgrading a package at time, I have seen that reinstalling
ash-20040127-1 (and using Bash-3.0-7, coreutils-5.3.0-7) all works fine.

All works fine also if one uses the new versions of those pkgs. and
changes '/bin/sh' in '/bin/ash' in 'wingcc_ld.sh' (/bin/bash does not
help)

Tanks

angelo.


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