On 2/27/13 1:26 PM, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> Hi bash gurus - bash appears to be broken on AIX 6.1 - I'd really
> appreciate some advice :
>
> With bash-4.2 patchlevel 42 (the latest available as of today from
> ftp.gnu.org ),
> on AIX, the resultant bash built with gcc-4.7.2 and system ld + as,
> ends up being
> broken wrt to command output in strings:
> $ ./bash
> bash-4.2$ echo "$(echo hello)"
> bash: command substitution: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> bash: command substitution: line 2: `echo hello)"'
> bash-4.2$ v="$(date)"
> bash: command substitution: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> bash: command substitution: line 13: `date)"'
I can't reproduce this, but ISTR something similar when the parser was
built with byacc. I think a sufficiently modern version of bison should
work. Make sure you delete builtins/evalstring.o and
builtins/libbuiltins.a after rebuilding y.tab.[ch]. The dependency there
is tricky, and it's best just to do it explicitly.
Chet
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