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According to Igor Pechtchanski on 7/7/2005 6:34 PM:
> Yep. The new /bin/sh is bash. Apparently, bash doesn't like the
> following line:
>
> if [ "`echo $dllname | sed 's{^lib/.*\.dll${{'`" != "$dllname" ]; then
>
> because in bash, ${ has special meaning -- it starts a variable reference.
> FWIW, I get the same error with "bash -n wingcc_ld.sh" when bash is
> version 2.05b. I suspect this may actually be a bug in bash, since single
> quotes ought to stop it from trying to expand variable references. This
> only happens when the single quotes are inside a shell substitution (i.e.,
> "echo '${'" works, but "echo `echo '${'`" doesn't). Nevertheless,
> changing the '{' to any other character (e.g., '#') in the sed script
> makes it parse correctly.
Another workaround is to use the alternative command substitution syntax
(which also has the nice property of being easier to read and nest):
if [ "$(echo $dllname | sed 's{^lib/.*\.dll${{')" != "$dllname" ]; then
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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