bash 4.1 XP Pro SP3 32-bit, using MinGW compiler short description: I have discovered that the installation method for BASH is actually recursive in nature, if I am not mistaken, requiring BASH to install BASH. read the first steps of the install.
" 1. `cd' to the directory containing the source code and type `./configure' to configure Bash for your system. If you're using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself." configure is a BASH script. Am I not correct in stating that BASH requires BASH to install? windows does not come with any such sh shell. and I need to be able to build one from scratch. you are not doing me any favors here, and I need BASH. please fix. would a special implementation be required for Windows due to the Win32 API-specific OS calls to handle processes? I would like this to be compilable with straight mingw and no more than make that it comes with. that will probably mean a separate tarball or zip file. MSYS, a companion set of unix tools for mingw, doesn't necessarily make usable executables, since anything generated with it requires some DLL's (shared libraries), and I need the generated file to be monolithic (the shared libraries can clash as things can stand now). I don't want to deal with MSYS, I want a straight BASH shell. Jim Michaels jmich...@yahoo.com(main) JesusnJim.com (my site) ________________________________ DoLifeComputers.JesusnJim.com (Do Life Computers group site which I lead) while (stone != rolling) moss++; --- Computer memory/disk size measurements: [KB KiB] [MB MiB] [GB GiB] [TB TiB] [10^3B=1000B=1KB][10^6B=1000000B=1MB][10^9B=1000000000B=1GB][10^12B=1000000000000B=1TB] [2^10B=1024B=1KiB][2^20B=1048576B=1MiB][2^30B=1073741824B=1GiB][2^40B=1099511627776B=1TiB] Note that with disks, a disk size is measured in GB or TB, not in GiB or TiB. computer memory (RAM) is measured in MiB and GiB. --- Robot dog food: Cables n' Bits --- adress=seg<<4+ofs; (ambiguity - a double-minded compiler is unstable in all its ways) biosdsk2.h:733: warning: suggest parentheses around '+' inside '<<' --- I'm bald on top (:-) ---