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From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Some small bash issues
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:32:31 +0100
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Two small things, present in bash 2.05 (including latest binary
from clio (dated 20020203)) on WinXP.  Not sure if I mentioned
these already (if so, sorry for the duplication).

 - readline not quite OK (Del, Ctl-Left, Ctl-Right, ... don't work)
 - some issues with envvars:

      foo=bar echo $foo

   is supposed to print "bar", but doesn't.
   This breaks a lot of things; for example, autoconf and automake
   will not build out-of-the-box, as Perl packages they use aren't
   installed yet (esp. the case for automake, as that now uses
   versioned install locations (i.e. share/automake-1.5e)).  They
   run

     perllibdir='$srcdir/lib' ./automake ...

   but Perl never gets $perllibdir, so it doesn't get added to @INC.

   Using

     foo=bar; echo $foo

   DOES print "bar", so a temporary workaround is possible; I'd still
   like to see it fixed though.