On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 12:47, Martijn Dekker <mart...@inlv.org> wrote: > I think you're probably hitting this bug: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00083.html Thanks, that indeed looks like it.
> The exit status of subshells is broken in bash-4.3 and bash-4.4 with > --enable-minimal-config. This is a fatal bug that would easily break > most substantial shell scripts, including configure. > > The bug was fixed in bash-5.0. Yes, 5.0 works. Do you know where the fix itself is? Commit http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?id=61c476d20d32dfd389c79fd4f2161a780685e42e mentions your report and fix but it definitely does not fix it. I'd like to backport it into 4.4.23. > As for a minimal bash-5.0 with full POSIX compliance, aliases are > required by POSIX but turned off by the minimal config, so you want: > --enable-minimal-config --enable-alias --enable-strict-posix-default Thanks, didn't know that! -- http://mikro.atari.org
