Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/local/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash'
-DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -g -O2
uname output: Linux sonorant 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 00:45:16 EST
2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 3.2
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release
Description:
I suggest that tilde expansion should be done for tokens with
"=~" even when they start with "-".
The specific reason is that I expected
./configure --prefix=~/something
to work, but it doesn't, since the tilde isn't expanded.
There are other cases as well where the value of a long option
is a filename and it might be convenient to use ~, like
sort foo --output=~/bar
Repeat-By:
echo foo=~root => foo=/root
echo --foo=~root => --foo=~root
In the second one there is no expansion.
