On 1/30/18 8:51 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: > So if there's a problem with this kind of thing in gcc-4.8, I'd like to > get some more information about what it is.
There doesn't seem to be. Running these commands on an ubuntu 14.04 system with gcc-4.8 results in a working bash binary: git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash cd bash bash ./configure -C make ./bash -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION' ./bash --version -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/