Steven W. Orr wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: i386 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: i386-redhat-linux-gcc > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i386' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i386-redhat-linux-gnu' > -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' > -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 > -O2 -g -pipe -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4 > uname output: Linux saturn 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 24 14:20:06 EST > 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > Machine Type: i386-redhat-linux-gnu > > Bash Version: 3.0 > Patch Level: 14 > Release Status: release > > Description: > Array initialization seems to be broken from typeset
The problem is actually double evaluation. In versions of bash through 3.0, the assignment statement ends up being expanded twice: once before typeset is called, and once by the array assignment code. This has been fixed for the next version of bash, and things work as you expect. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...Love Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash