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Re: --enable-minimal-config


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: --enable-minimal-config
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:55:12 -0400
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Pascal S. de Kloe wrote:

# ./configure --enable-minimal-config
# make
...
execute_cmd.c: In function `executing_line_number':
execute_cmd.c:290: error: union has no member named `Cond'
execute_cmd.c:292: error: union has no member named `Arith'
execute_cmd.c:294: error: union has no member named `ArithFor'
make: *** [execute_cmd.o] Error 1

Computer: alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu
bash 2.05b with patch 001 to 007

This has been fixed in bash-3.0.

Since the manual invites "Suggestions and 'philosophical' bug reports" I'll have a complaint. Why do you have variables named PWD and OLDPWD?

Historical precedent.  ksh added $PWD and $OLDPWD quite a few years
ago, and POSIX standardized both.

Following the historical "An Introduction To The C Shell" by William Joy:

Bash doesn't try to imitate the C shell, though it does have a few
csh-inspired features.

Chet




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