On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:07:02AM -0500, Crowe, Edward wrote:
> # diff builtins/printf.def.original builtins/printf.def
> 174c174
> < #if !HAVE_VSNPRINTF
> ---
> > /*#if !HAVE_VSNPRINTF
> 176a177
> > */
That's not the right fix. The right fix is to apply the patches from
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/g
Hello,
I was trying to compile bash 4.1 for HP-UX 11.31 on Itanium with
HP's compiler (version: "(Bundled) cc: HP C/aC++ B3910B A.06.12 [Oct 11
2006]"). I ran ./configure without options and ran into the following
error.
(Bundled) cc: warning 922: "-g" is unsupported in the bundled compile
>> There is a big difference between
>>
>> $ a=";"
>>
>> and
>>
>> $ a=;
> And for the VERY ignorant what is the difference
In the second case the unescaped semi-colon is a separator totally
unrelated to the assignment, which has no value at all. The variable
is assigned an empty string.
On 08/20/2010 07:12 AM, lxnf9...@comcast.net wrote:
>> There is a big difference between
>>
>> $ a=";"
>>
>> and
>>
>> $ a=;
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
>>
>
> And for the VERY ignorant what is the difference
a=';' assigns the value ";" to $a. a=; assigns the empty string to a,
because the ; is the metach
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Marc Herbert writes:
Probably result in some error; I do not really care in this initial
stage. In any case it should not perform any *implicit* (and
thus confusing) quoting.
There is no quoting, the shell just doesn't split into words, which
doesn
