Bash-4.0 official patch 25 adds a section that looks to the compiler like a nested C comment. Obviously somebody recognized this and added #if 0 ... #endif around the whole comment.
Alas, GCC 3.3 still errors out: cc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSHELL -I/usr/local/include -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I../../include -I../../lib -O2 -pipe glob.c glob.c:1023:69: missing terminating ' character Apparently GCC 3.4 and later versions handle this as intended. [I'm not subscribed to bug-bash.] -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de