[gentoo-dev] Re: bash-4.0-r1 for ~arch

[ABCD <en.ABCD@gmail.com>]

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Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 02 March 2009 22:56:27 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> On 19:27 Mon 02 Mar     , Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> unless i see any new issues come up, bash-4.0-r1 will be going into ~arch
>>> this week.  now would be a good time to sync up and try bash-4.0 on your
>>> system :p. -mike
>> comet $ source /usr/share/bash-completion/genkernel
>> -bash: /usr/share/bash-completion/genkernel: line 50: unexpected EOF while
>> looking for matching `)' -bash: /usr/share/bash-completion/genkernel: line
>> 74: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>>
>> 50    args=( $(case $args in
>> 55    (*) compgen -o bashdefault -- "$rhs" ;; # punt
>> 56    esac) )
>
> comments in subshelled case statements is causing the problem.  drop the '#
> punt' and it's fine.
>
>> Actually seems like quite a few of the bash-completion scripts have
>> issues with 4.0 ... might want to just run through those.
>
> i dont use bash completion so i dont have any actually installed.  run `bash -
> n` on each one on your system and let me know which ones result in errors.
> -mike

With my tests using bash 3.2, I noticed that a number of the
bash-completion scripts use extglob, so you will need to use
`bash -O extglob -n $script` to check for validity.

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ABCD

(lurked for a long while, just never had a reason to post)

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