From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MXyVp-0003E7-6d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:27:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E2456E0584; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blingymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDDE0E0584 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 14:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (c-75-69-71-37.hsd1.vt.comcast.net [75.69.71.37]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blingymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B8C14D798 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 2009 07:27:38 -0700 (PDT) To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Eselect Syntax Bug? References: <20090803100425.e83801b8.frank.peters@comcast.net> From: Josh Sled Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:27:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090803100425.e83801b8.frank.peters@comcast.net> (Frank Peters's message of "Mon\, 3 Aug 2009 10\:04\:25 -0400") Message-ID: <87k51lt1k4.fsf@phoenix.asynchronous.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 9eee34f0-d5f0-4e9c-8025-41358b4bd36a X-Archives-Hash: d965fedf81f293e93e62d37693895f77 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Frank Peters writes: > Running eselect, a bash script, always fails with the errors: > > `ec_do_list-options': not a valid identifier > `ec_do_list-modules': not a valid identifier [=E2=80=A6] > But why has not such an obvious mistake been observed before? > > Has anyone else executed an unmodified eselect without error? What version of bash? You mentioned using bash 4 and downgrading to "3.2" in the previous thread. A bit more detail here would be nice. What use flags for bash, too? It works fine, here: jsled@phoenix [~]$ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.39(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. jsled@phoenix [~]$ eix -r '^bash$' [I] app-shells/bash Available versions: 3.1_p17 3.2_p39 ~3.2_p48 ~3.2_p48-r1 ~4.0_p10 ~4.= 0_p10-r1 ~4.0_p17 ~4.0_p17-r1 ~4.0_p24 ~4.0_p28 {afs bashlogger examples ne= t nls plugins vanilla} Installed versions: 3.2_p39(03:41:31 AM 05/07/2009)(nls -afs -bashlog= ger -examples -plugins -vanilla) Homepage: http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/bash/bashtop.html Description: The standard GNU Bourne again shell jsled@phoenix [~]$ eselect --help Usage: eselect Global options: [=E2=80=A6works fine, no errors, &c.=E2=80=A6] jsled@phoenix [~]$ =2D-=20 ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=3Djsled; b=3Dasynchronous.org; echo ${a}@${b} --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkp289wACgkQXze2dBAuga1L1ACdHU6vTxk2OMUEGwA5dWJwyrC6 gXMAmwWwXhrBRux3Ogh6k54WfJVO+REl =MU7h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--