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Re: Please test: bash-3.0-10 and readline-5.0-4


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Eric Blake wrote:
>> Eric Blake wrote:
>>> + bash now recognizes c:\ as an absolute, not relative path, for the cd
>>> builtin and for command execution
>> BTW: I just wanted to mention that Mozilla configure still fails, the
>> strange thing AFAIK here is that a test from command line (cygwin here,
>> but same results with Windows command line) converts the path correctly
>> (also with the "old" bash) but from the configure script it fails. See
>> this test with a script:
> 
> setup.exe has a limitation that it runs postinstall scripts with /bin/sh if
> it exists, and that there is currently no clean way to uninstall
> /bin/sh when upgrading bash.  Therefore, I bet that the bash
> postinstall script that tried to upgrade /bin/sh failed, because running
> the script with /bin/sh cannot upgrade /bin/sh, so now your
> "bash --version" and "sh --version" report different values.  The
> solution, then, is to "cp /bin/{bash,sh}", then try Mozilla again.

Thanks for the help, works fine now with this trick (and the new version
 so) :)

Frank
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