readline-8.0-alpha: Makefile.in: don't forget to create pkgconfigdir

2018-05-24 Thread gabriele balducci
hi just tried to build/install readline-8.0-alpha and found the following glitch: 8< /bin/install: cannot create regular file '/opt/stow.d/versions/readline-8.0-alpha/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/readline.pc': No such file or directory make[1]: *** [Makefile:245: install-pc] Error 1 make[1]: Lea

Re: readline-8.0-alpha: Makefile.in: don't forget to create pkgconfigdir

2018-05-24 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/24/18 11:40 AM, gabriele balducci wrote: > hi > > just tried to build/install readline-8.0-alpha and found the following > glitch: Thanks for the report. I think a better fix is to not to attempt to install readline.pc if $(pkgconfigdir) is missing. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft s

Re: readline-8.0-alpha: Makefile.in: don't forget to create pkgconfigdir

2018-05-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/24/2018 01:18 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 5/24/18 11:40 AM, gabriele balducci wrote: hi just tried to build/install readline-8.0-alpha and found the following glitch: Thanks for the report. I think a better fix is to not to attempt to install readline.pc if $(pkgconfigdir) is missing. Wh

Re: readline-8.0-alpha: Makefile.in: don't forget to create pkgconfigdir

2018-05-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/24/2018 01:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote: On 05/24/2018 01:18 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: On 5/24/18 11:40 AM, gabriele balducci wrote: hi just tried to build/install readline-8.0-alpha and found the following glitch: Thanks for the report. I think a better fix is to not to attempt to install read

Re: readline-8.0-alpha: Makefile.in: don't forget to create pkgconfigdir

2018-05-24 Thread Chet Ramey
On 5/24/18 2:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/24/2018 01:18 PM, Chet Ramey wrote: >> On 5/24/18 11:40 AM, gabriele balducci wrote: >>> hi >>> >>> just tried to build/install readline-8.0-alpha and found the following >>> glitch: >> >> Thanks for the report. I think a better fix is to not to attempt

[BUG] assignments preceding 'read' persist past command in POSIX mode

2018-05-24 Thread Martijn Dekker
In bash-20180511 and bash-20180518 snapshots and in bash 5.0.0-alpha, in POSIX mode, assignments preceding 'read' incorrectly persist past the command. 'read' is a regular builtin so they should not persist. $ ./bash -o posix -c 'v=ok; v=bug read x

Re: Variables can’t contain NUL

2018-05-24 Thread L A Walsh
Chet Ramey wrote: On 5/21/18 8:37 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: If you're looking for some deeper answer, like "Why did Stephen Bourne write it this way back in 1977?" then I would hazard a guess along the lines of "It is tightly coupled to the underlying C argument-passing interface which uses

Re: readline-8.0-alpha: Makefile.in: don't forget to create pkgconfigdir

2018-05-24 Thread gabriele balducci
> >> Thanks for the report. I think a better fix is to not to attempt to > >> install readline.pc if $(pkgconfigdir) is missing. > > > > Why not? If you are doing an install into DESTDIR for the purpose of > > bundling a pre-built binary for a distro, then $(pkgconfigdir) will be > > missing, bec