Re: remaking bash, trying static, glibc refuses static...?

2015-08-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
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Re: why is 'direxpand' converting relative paths to absolute?

2015-08-16 Thread Clark Wang
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > From the manpage I wouldn't have guess it changed > paths to absolute -- but would expand variables and wildcards > in the path. > > It doesn't seem to make alot of sense when there are other > ways to go from rel->abs, but not so many that ju

remaking bash, trying static, glibc refuses static...?

2015-08-16 Thread Linda Walsh
bash-4.3/lib/readline/complete.c:2193: warning: Using 'getpwent' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking Other syms: getpwnam, setpwent, endpwent. Is providing a static lib that reads the local machine's /etc/passwd f

why is 'direxpand' converting relative paths to absolute?

2015-08-16 Thread Linda Walsh
From the manpage I wouldn't have guess it changed paths to absolute -- but would expand variables and wildcards in the path. It doesn't seem to make alot of sense when there are other ways to go from rel->abs, but not so many that just expand vars or aliases on a dir. Does anyone know why pa

Re: Subject: Manual directory stack ambiguity

2015-08-16 Thread Tim Nielens
The commands work fine, and one understands pretty easily while playing with them how the stack works. There are just ambiguities in the manual. Check the pushd builtin command documentation. " `pushd' pushd [-n] [+N | -N | DIR] Save the current directory on the top of the direct

Re: bash expanding relative paths in auto-complete

2015-08-16 Thread Linda Walsh
Andreas Schwab wrote: Linda Walsh writes: in bash 4.3.39, if I type a command, (like "."(source)) and a relative path like : ../conf, it expands the relative pathname to absolute pathnames. Worksforme. Make sure to run complete -r first. --- You didn't say what version of bash you were u

Re: Subject: Manual directory stack ambiguity

2015-08-16 Thread Chet Ramey
On 8/14/15 6:08 AM, Tim Nielens wrote: > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 39 > Release Status: release > > Description: > There is a ambiguity about the directory stack in the manual: 6.8.1 > Directory Stack Builtins > > It's difficult to understand if the current directory is part of the stack