Re: Bash-5.0 Official patch 7

[Vladimir Marek]

Hi,

> I don't think bash 5 has hit Debian sid yet. As for "commercial" UNIX
> like Solaris, well, that platform is on life support and a nightmare to
> deal with. So no sense in wasting time there anymore.

I'm sorry to hear that Solaris is a nightmare. Solaris 11.4 (the current
supported version) has bash 5 already included

https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/components/bash/Makefile

And we are on patch level 3

https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/bash/patches

Bash is one of the components we follow closely, so I'll be filing
internal bugs to update to latest patch level tomorrow. The Makefile
lists requirements

REQUIRED_PACKAGES += library/ncurses
REQUIRED_PACKAGES += shell/ksh93
REQUIRED_PACKAGES += terminal/screen

screen is needed for testing only (as the tests can be executed remotely
without having real terminal available). Bash uses configure.mk build style

https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/make-rules/configure.mk

Which lists more dependencies

REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/autoconf
REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/automake
REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/gnu-make
REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/libtool
REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/build/pkg-config
REQUIRED_PACKAGES += developer/macro/gnu-m4
REQUIRED_PACKAGES += file/gnu-coreutils
REQUIRED_PACKAGES += library/libtool/libltdl

Hope this helps
-- 
        Vlad