Re: bash manual

2006-10-15 Thread Chet Ramey
V. Mark Lehky wrote: > Hi, > > This is in reference to "Edition 2.5b, last updated 15 July 2002, of The > GNU Bash Reference Manual". > > Please, please, please, for the sake of future generations, make the > following addition in two spots in the next release of the manual. I > just spent like t

RE: Make on bash 3.1 fails with "autoconf: not found" (AlphaServer DS10L running Tru64 UNIX 5.1B Patch Kit #5, latest)

2006-10-15 Thread John Lanier
>>You might also try `touch configure' and see whether or not that convinces >>make that it's up to date. That worked! After doing "touch -m configure", I re-ran "configure+make+make install" without incident! Thanks for the help! --John Lanier From:

Re: Make on bash 3.1 fails with "autoconf: not found" (AlphaServer DS10L running Tru64 UNIX 5.1B Patch Kit #5, latest)

2006-10-15 Thread Chet Ramey
John Lanier wrote: > > Hello, > > Not sure if this is a bug, but I figured I'd start here. Not sure why make thinks you need to rebuild configure, but you can obtain autoconf from ftp.gnu.org. You might also try `touch configure' and see whether or not that convinces make that it's up to date

Re: More Parser Errors in 3.2

2006-10-15 Thread Chet Ramey
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 13 October 2006 10:56, Jim Gifford wrote: >> Been trying to compile swig with the current bash 3.2 have ran into >> several issues that I have been able to fix except for this one. > > this has been reported already: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/20