Re: make distclean and bash-4.4 - FYI

[Michael Felt]

On 10/31/2018 9:03 PM, Michael Felt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I finally got around to patching and packaging bash-4.4.23 and had to
> run a "make distclean" because I had copied the old version and without
> the make distclean make kept looking for "bashversion" in the old path
> .../bash-4.4.19/bashversion
>
> This is just FYI - I'll install yacc, 
make worked well after yacc was installed
> which is what make is complaining
> about now - but I also wonder if I could have avoided this by trying to
> build oot (out of tree). Is this supported, or even recommended?
>
> Thanks for a great product!
>
> Michael
>
Running "make test", and I amy have forgotten something I did in the past.
a) running tests as root (initially)
b) ends with:
run-vredir
14,16c14,16
< ./vredir.tests: line 25: $v: A file descriptor does not refer to an
open file.
< ./vredir.tests: line 26: $v: A file descriptor does not refer to an
open file.
< ./vredir.tests: line 27: $v: A file descriptor does not refer to an
open file.
---
> ./vredir.tests: line 25: $v: Bad file descriptor
> ./vredir.tests: line 26: $v: Bad file descriptor
> ./vredir.tests: line 27: $v: Bad file descriptor
90,91c90,91
< ./vredir6.sub: redirection error: cannot duplicate fd: The process
file table is full.
< ./vredir6.sub: line 13: /dev/null: The process file table is full.
---
> ./vredir6.sub: redirection error: cannot duplicate fd: Invalid argument
> ./vredir6.sub: line 13: /dev/null: Invalid argument

I am mainly surprised by "process file table is full" - is there
something specific I can do to look at this more closely?

Michael