Wanted: better(more specific) error msgs?

2019-05-25 Thread L A Walsh
Ran into a minor error where I was testing some dec<->hex conversion values, and later testing the display of a unicode char. Problem happened when I re-used a var that had earlier had the integer property set on the variable. declare -i a=123 ... then later a="▯" -bash: ▯: syntax error: operan

Re: hit this before undefined symbol: O_CLOEXEC

2019-05-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 5/25/19 5:55 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 5/25/19 2:06 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: On any Solaris boxen there really isn't O_CLOEXEC so even after a neat compile and test the install will blow up. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-02/msg00167.html You can use the patch there as a q

Re: hit this before undefined symbol: O_CLOEXEC

2019-05-25 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/25/19 2:06 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > On any Solaris boxen there really isn't O_CLOEXEC so even after a neat > compile and test the install will blow up. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-02/msg00167.html You can use the patch there as a quick solution, or grab the version o

Re: Bug? Bash manual not indexable by search engines

2019-05-25 Thread Eduardo A . Bustamante López
On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 02:56:43PM -0400, Richard Marmorstein wrote: > There was discussion on Twitter today > (https://twitter.com/PttPrgrmmr/status/1132351142938185728) about how the > Bash manual appears to not be indexable by search engines. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref

Bug? Bash manual not indexable by search engines

2019-05-25 Thread Richard Marmorstein
There was discussion on Twitter today (https://twitter.com/PttPrgrmmr/status/1132351142938185728) about how the Bash manual appears to not be indexable by search engines. https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html redirects to https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.

hit this before undefined symbol: O_CLOEXEC

2019-05-25 Thread Dennis Clarke
On any Solaris boxen there really isn't O_CLOEXEC so even after a neat compile and test the install will blow up. Simple solution is to not install the example fdflags.c . . . /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc -K pic -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSHELL -DSOLARIS -m64 -xarch=sparc -g -Xa -errfmt=error -erro

Re: readline: How to unbind _all_ keys

2019-05-25 Thread Henning
On 24/05/2019 17:16, Chet Ramey wrote: That's not in the distributed version of bash-5.0. If you're applying an older cygwin patch, have you tried just building the distributed version? Let's make sure that works. Bang! It does. So sorry that I didn't have that idea myself. Especially as I ha