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	Dawe on Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:26:49 +0100)
Subject: Re: Problems with depcomp from fileutils 4.0x & bash 2.03
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| Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 23:26:49 +0100
| From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
| 
| Hello.
| 
| "Mark E." wrote:
| > 
| > > down to bash 2.03 (thanks guys!). This is actually a problem earlier
| > > encountered in the djgpp-workers thread "Porting problems with
| > > Sh-utils (beta)" - the first mail is dated Sat, 8 Apr 2000 18:49:49
| > > +0500 on my system.
| > 
| > This is occasionally to gnu.bash.bug. The Bash maintainer's response
| > always is that the construct is working as intended.
| 
| But I think this is a bug in the DJGPP port of bash 2.03. An equivalent
| test under Linux works fine.
| 
| If this behaviour was the expected behaviour of bash 2.03, then how could
| anybody build fileutils 4.0x under Linux, etc.? In fact, I just tried it
| myself and the fileutils 4.0x compile worked with bash 2.03. This seems to
| support my suspicion of a bug in the DJGPP port.

The same problem exists with Sh-utils. And I'm sure it's the same with
the textutils pretest, too. And possibly other packages...? It would
be nice if we had some permanent fix for this. Is it possible, Mark?

  Prash