On 03-07-2023 12:05:14 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 7/3/23 2:33 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > > This is a Gentoo-specific problem. When we are bootstrapping a Prefix, > > we need an updated bash very early on in the process. On some systems, > > we experienced compilation failures in the readline component. Since > > this interactive part isn't important at this point (the bootstrapped > > bash is simply used for executing scripts, and replaced as soon as we > > can with a proper-built one via an ebuild instead) I decided to work > > around compilation and runtime problems we've seen on e.g. Darwin 9 and > > use --disable-readline (and --without-bash-malloc on musl). > > > > That said, this really is a workaround. If the bundled readline would > > have compiled and linked fine, I'd never disabled it for the moment. > > I'll see if I can check this week if the system in question will compile > > a newer version or any version with readline. > > I'd be interested in seeing what the compilation or linking issues are. > If we have a complete dev environment -- one that's capable of compiling > bash, which is more demanding of the environment than readline -- we > should be able to fix whatever readline compilation problems come up.
I've just finished bash-5.1 on powerpc-apple-darwin9, and it completes without problems. So I'll remove the workaround, everything seems fine. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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