Re: bash2

2000-02-01 Thread Chris Abbey
At 17:09 2/1/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dug out of the snow and wrote: >Maybe a env var to make it totally backwards even w/o warning? >$I_WANT_A_BROKEN_BASH perhaps, because why should ps have all the fun? :) you can have the opposite easily... $I_WANT_NEW_BASH said "envvar" is set by executin

Re: bash2

2000-02-01 Thread Tony Nugent
On Tue Feb 01 2000 at 17:09, James Manning wrote: > > > Let the old #!/bin/bash scripts break -- they need to be fixed. > > > > > > The sooner "echo $BASH_VERSION" returns 2.x by default, the better... > > > > perhaps a simple bash2 script to update bash1 scripts? > > Perhaps an RH-specific bash

Re: bash2

2000-02-01 Thread Tony Nugent
On Wed Feb 02 2000 at 08:00, Kevin Waterson wrote: > Tony Nugent wrote: > > > On Mon Jan 31 2000 at 11:43, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > > My understanding was that bash2 was fully backwards compatable. I > > > > could however be mildly/wildly mistaken > > > > > > It is mostly but not 100%. The bre

Re: bash2

2000-02-01 Thread James Manning
[ Tuesday, February 1, 2000 ] Kevin Waterson wrote: > Tony Nugent wrote: > > Let the old #!/bin/bash scripts break -- they need to be fixed. > > > > The sooner "echo $BASH_VERSION" returns 2.x by default, the better... > > perhaps a simple bash2 script to update bash1 scripts? Perhaps an RH-spe

Re: bash2

2000-02-01 Thread Kevin Waterson
Tony Nugent wrote: > On Mon Jan 31 2000 at 11:43, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > My understanding was that bash2 was fully backwards compatable. I > > > could however be mildly/wildly mistaken > > > > It is mostly but not 100%. The breakages are actually not so much a > > bash fault either. bash2 is mo

A problem Building RPMs

2000-02-01 Thread John Summerfield
Various rpms contain something like this in the spec file; %files -f ../file.list.%{name} and build the file list dynamically. This fails miserably for me; rpm simply cannot file the file list with my settings. I've fiddled around of & on for months trying to find a generic solution that work

(Hack for) Making static symbols dynamic with libdl?

2000-02-01 Thread Robert Riviere
Hello, [sorry if this post is off-topic, or if some of you have already seen it in some newsgroup. But I obtained absolutely no answer... If someone knows a better place to ask, please tell me.] I'm trying to re-use existing library functions working on static data. And I'd like to bind some o