X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-Id: Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:17:37 -0600 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060719 Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: bash-3.1-7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-Mailer: Perl5 Mail::Internet v1.74 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of bash, 3.1-7, is available for experimental use. NOTICE: ======= This version removes several outdated #defines that were once necessary in older versions of cygwin, but which made bash on cygwin different and slower than bash on Linux. In the process, there is a major change in behavior - bash no longer forces text mode when reading scripts. If your script resides on a text mount point, you will not notice any difference. If your script resides on a binary mount point, and has normal unix \n line endings, you may notice a slight speedup. But if your script resides on a binary mount point, and has \r\n line endings, bash will most likely encounter syntax errors. The fix is simple - use d2u to convert script files residing on a binary mount point to be unix files, or if you must use DOS lines, use a text mount point. Because of this change in behavior, I am marking this version experimental for a while until I can gauge from mailing list traffic that it is safe to promote to current. NEWS: ===== This is a minor patch release. The only change is removing outdated cygwin-specific #ifdefs that are no longer necessary in light of improvements in cygwin itself. Remember, you must not have any bash or /bin/sh instances running when you upgrade the bash package. This release will work with cygwin-1.5.21-1 or later. DESCRIPTION: ============ Bash is an sh-compatible shell that incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and C shell (csh). It is intended to conform to the IEEE POSIX P1003.2/ISO 9945.2 Shell and Tools standard. It offers functional improvements over sh for both programming and interactive use. In addition, most sh scripts can be run by Bash without modification. As of the bash 3.0 series, cygwin /bin/sh defaults to bash, not ash, similar to Linux distributions. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'bash' in the 'Base' category (it should already be selected). DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin bash maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN DOT COM AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFAjJR84KuGfSFAYARAix9AKCkcaAfFUxIgQujb7EJy77y8v8qJACfYQQw WO+SNQ+1l3SV8tWmEiHFpp4= =NEls -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/