From: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>
Message-Id: <199708102002.AA168073362@typhoon.rose.hp.com>
Subject: Re: BASH Problems
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:02:41 PDT
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970810180533.4651f-100000@is>; from "Eli Zaretskii" at Aug 10, 97 6:06 pm
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> > I wanted to try building gcc on my DOS machine, so I downloaded what I
> > believe is the latest version of BASH (bashb9.zip).
> > Anyway, I've found it to be very unstable.
> 
> Does the version on SimTel work in a stable manner?  If not, please
> tell more about your system configuration.

No.  Originally (maybe 5 months ago), I tried using that (simtel v.) and had the same
problems.  That's what prompted me to bootstrap from unix when building gcc.
I also just recently tried the bash 2 alpha and that also had 
the same trouble.  My systems is fairly plain I believe.  Pentium, Windows 95,
UniVBE loaded, LFN=y.  Nothing else of interest.  If I invoke bash from a MS DOS
command prompt I can work in it for a couple of minutes, and then it no longer
accepts input.  I cannot ctrl-c out of it, but I can ctrl-break, which gives me 
a symify trace, but the msdos prompt window will now be locked up completely
too.  The times I run it as 'bash autoconf' or 'bash configure' it always
hangs or crashes.




Andrew