Re: Fwd: Re: Bash-3.1.17 gets lost looking for end of string in certain contexts

2006-05-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Richard on 5/3/2006 7:50 PM: > Just curious: why is it that your version displays 6 within parenthesis, > whereas mine displays 2? The number in parenthesis matches the number of times you have rebuilt in your local tree (also encod

Re: Bash-3.1.17 gets lost looking for end of string in certain contexts

2006-05-04 Thread Andreas Schwab
Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Compiling grep-2.5.1a and during its tests, test #121 is not completed > because of following error messages by bash: > > spencer1.script: line 602: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' > spencer1.script: line 608: syntax error: une

Fwd: Re: Bash-3.1.17 gets lost looking for end of string in certain contexts

2006-05-03 Thread Richard
Have just read the archives... ;) Forwarding to the list accordingly! -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Bash-3.1.17 gets lost looking for end of string in certain contexts Date: Wednesday 03 May 2006 22:36 From: Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Blake &

Re: Bash-3.1.17 gets lost looking for end of string in certain contexts

2006-05-02 Thread Eric Blake
[Please keep replies on the list, so that others that encounter the same problem may see it in the archives, and so that you can get comments from more than just me.] > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:15, you wrote: > > According to Richard on 5/1/2006 5:46 PM: > > > 602 status=`echo 'beriberi'| {

Re: Bash-3.1.17 gets lost looking for end of string in certain contexts

2006-05-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Richard on 5/1/2006 5:46 PM: > > 602 status=`echo 'beriberi'| { ${GREP} -E -e '().*\1' >/dev/null 2>&1 ; > echo $?; }` I could not reproduce this - are you sure you reported it correctly? $ foo=`echo 'beriberi'| { grep -E -e '(..

Bash-3.1.17 gets lost looking for end of string in certain contexts

2006-05-01 Thread Richard
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: i686 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/mnt/STG1/share/locale' -DPACKAG