Chet Ramey wrote:
It's likely that these have been problems for a long time; the code to warn about unknown variable names is new in readline-7.0.
--- Ah... didn't know that. That's likely all or most of those.
You can't link bash-4.4 against any readline version except 7.0;
--- I suspected as much, which makes these settings all the more important ... these 2 things: 1) How is the location for readline-7.0 specified? and ... 2) why is the value passed to configure not used when linking? I think those 2 have been plaguing me for a while (i.e. have seen similar errors before, depending on options -- likely because it was linking with the wrong version of readline and not the one specified... Thanks, linda