On 8/7/10 8:02 PM, John Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:31:08 +0000, John Kelly <j...@isp2dial.com> wrote:
>
>>> bash --version
>>> GNU bash, version 4.1.7(1)-release (i586-pc-interix3.5)
>
>> Backquote command substitution works, but $(...) does not.
>
>> I built it like this:
>
>>> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686" \
>>> ./configure \
>>> --mandir=/usr/local/man \
>>> --enable-process-substitution
>
>
> Rebuilding it this:
>
> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686" \
> ./configure \
> --mandir=/usr/local/man \
> --disable-nls
>
>
> fixes the problem, so it has something to do with nls. The base Interix
> system is a bare bones environment, without GNU gettext.
Sounds like some kind of interaction between Interix and libintl. I don't
have an Interix box to look at, but if you've found something that works,
go with it.
Chet
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