Re: Bash-4.4-beta available for FTP

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/23/15 3:08 AM, aixtools wrote:
> On 2015-10-15 16:23, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> The first beta release of bash-4.4 is now available with the URL
>>
>> ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.4-beta.tar.gz
>>
>> This tar file includes the formatted documentation (you should be able to
>> generate updated versions yourself).
>>
> The summary - there is a 'conflict' between how bash is redefining mbstr
> routines included in AIX libc.a since at least 2004 (when AIX 5.3 came out).
> These routines may be better - but there seems to be a "typedef naming
> scheme" collision that is more than just "unsigned versus signed" difference.

I'll have to take a look, but these names are pretty much available for any
use.  They're not part of any standard.

AIX seems to have gone its own way on this.  The bash header file is from
gnulib, and everyone else who includes these functions uses that file.


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