Gerard wrote: > Fair enough. I know that several users of FreeBSD are complaining all > ready and have switched back to Bash-3.x. > > This is a short script, named "t.sh" that will produce the error > message: > > #!/usr/bin/env bash > > if $(which gpg2); then > printf "gpg2 located" > fi > > This is the error message: > > ./t.sh: command substitution: line 4: syntax error near unexpected > token `)' ./t.sh: command substitution: line 4: `which gpg2)' > > Even something as simple as: > > echo $(uname) > > will produce the same error message.
I've corresponded with the FreeBSD port maintainer, and this is due to the port build using yacc instead of bison. Using bison fixes it. I don't know why yacc doesn't work yet. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
