Re: bashbug and OSX

[Chet Ramey]

> I tried using bashbug on Mac OSX 10.5.2 (Intel), and it doesn't seem  
> to be able to read my system info accurately.
> 
> It says:
> ___
> Machine: powerpc
> OS: darwin9.0
> Compiler: gcc
> ___
> 
> This is an Intel MacBook, not a PowerPC machine. I am unsure if OSX  
> can be described as darwin9.0. Yes, I'm using gcc4.

The bashbug script is intended to be created and installed when bash
is built.  It does not attempt to dynamically read your current
environment, but uses whatever values the build environment gives it.
I'm not sure about Apple's build process.  It might have something to
do with the fact that bash is a universal binary.

> bashbug also seemed to think my default editor was lisp, when it is  
> set to vi. Weird.

It uses `$DEFEDITOR' and `$EDITOR', in that order, before trying a bunch
of relatively plausible possibilities.

Chet

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Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/