From: "Jean Jordaan" <rgo_anas AT rgo DOT sun DOT ac DOT za>
Organization: Stellenbosch University
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:16:33 +0200
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Subject: [newbie] struggling with installing bash
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Dear all

I'm a humanities student struggling to become computer literate. Until
I'm able to setup Linux as my OS, at least I want to use the GNU
shell.

I got Ian Stewardson's sh working fine, but now I'm trying to install
the GNU port of bash. As far as I can see, I have theenvironment 
variables set up OK. How come I get a crash?

It works if I don't specify bash as login shell. However, then it
doesn't source .bash_login, of course.

Dumps of the successful and the failed attempts follow.

Greetings,
Jean

==============INTACT==============
c:\djgpp\info>bash -version
GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1) r3 w/multibyte extension
bash$

==============CRASH==============
c:\djgpp\info>bash -login
bash: Can't make pipes for command substitution!
Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
Page fault at eip=00021f2b, error=0004
eax=6953206e ebx=0006a114 ecx=ffbc8140 edx=00000003 esi=00000002
edi=00000000
ebp=00309670 esp=00309664 program=C:\DJGPP\BIN\BASH.EXE
cs: sel=00a7  base=82ccc000  limit=ffbe3fff
ds: sel=00af  base=82ccc000  limit=ffbe3fff
es: sel=00af  base=82ccc000  limit=ffbe3fff
fs: sel=00bf  base=00000000  limit=ffffffff
gs: sel=00bf  base=00000000  limit=ffffffff
ss: sel=00af  base=82ccc000  limit=ffbe3fff

Call frame traceback EIPs:
  0x00021f2b
  0x000099b6
  0x00009a19
  0x0001616b
  0x0001789c
  0x000155fc
  0x000156e1
  0x0001670a
  0x00017614
  0x000155fc
  0x0001565f