Hi, > I don't think bash 5 has hit Debian sid yet. As for "commercial" UNIX > like Solaris, well, that platform is on life support and a nightmare to > deal with. So no sense in wasting time there anymore.
I'm sorry to hear that Solaris is a nightmare. Solaris 11.4 (the current supported version) has bash 5 already included https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/bash/Makefile And we are on patch level 3 https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/bash/patches Bash is one of the components we follow closely, so I'll be filing internal bugs to update to latest patch level tomorrow. The Makefile lists requirements REQUIRED_PACKAGES += library/ncurses REQUIRED_PACKAGES += shell/ksh93 REQUIRED_PACKAGES += terminal/screen screen is needed for testing only (as the tests can be executed remotely without having real terminal available). Bash uses configure.mk build style https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/make-rules/configure.mk Which lists more dependencies REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/autoconf REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/automake REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/gnu-make REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/libtool REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/pkg-config REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/macro/gnu-m4 REQUIRED_PACKAGES += file/gnu-coreutils REQUIRED_PACKAGES += library/libtool/libltdl Hope this helps -- Vlad
