Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-29 Thread Eric Blake
Larry Breyer ucsd.edu> writes: > I am a bit confused by these numbering schemes. When I look at the > 'Select Packages' section of setup, my choices for bash are 3.1-6 or > 3.1-8. I assumed they were shorthand for 3.1.16 and 3.1.18. Nope, they are shorthand for 3.1.17(6) and 3.1.17(8). Everyt

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-29 Thread Larry Breyer
Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Larry Breyer on 9/27/2006 3:22 PM: What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ? I don't know, but let me know when you find out :) (There is no 3.1.18 - the latest official bash is 3.1.17, at cygwin release 8, but ups

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-29 Thread mwoehlke
Eric Blake wrote: According to Eric Blake on 9/27/2006 7:02 PM: change the script to ignore whitespace (make the first non-comment line set IFS appropriately, as in this snippet: IFS=' '''' ' I retract this third suggestion. On investigation of the bash source, bash still treats \r as

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 9/27/2006 7:02 PM: > change the script to ignore whitespace (make the first non-comment line > set IFS appropriately, as in this snippet: > IFS=' '' '' > ' I retract this third suggestion. On investigation of the bash

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:58:15PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Ah. Blindly doing *anything* and then blaming others for the results is not a recipe for sympathy. I think that one is going in my "quotes" file. I am honored. :-) -- Larry Hall

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:58:15PM -0400, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >Ah. Blindly doing *anything* and then blaming others for the results is >not a recipe for sympathy. I think that one is going in my "quotes" file. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Larry Breyer on 9/27/2006 3:22 PM: > What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ? I don't know, but let me know when you find out :) (There is no 3.1.18 - the latest official bash is 3.1.17, at cygwin release 8, but upstream is very unlikely

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
mwoehlke wrote: Larry Breyer wrote: What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ? Did you bother reading the ANNOUNCEMENT? Right. This is *not* a bug. It's a feature. If you read the ANNOUNCEMENT on the ANOUNCEMENT list (copied to the Cygwin list as well), it would be obvious to you why you'

Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

2006-09-27 Thread mwoehlke
Larry Breyer wrote: What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ? Did you bother reading the ANNOUNCEMENT? I blindly performed a cygwin update, rebooted, and attempted startx. X came up OK but the terminals would not respond to keyboard input. Looking at the output of startx it became apparent so