Re: [PATCH] Define $as_echo and $as_echo_n for backward compatibility.
Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
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On 3/13/20 3:32 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > I'm wondering if Chet has an update on the matter (adding bug-bash). > Repeating some context: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04237.html > was a mail to the POSIX folks last June complaining about how bash 5.0's > change to allow \ to trigger globbing has unintended consequences, and > breaks many existing configure scripts based on the contents of the current > directory. I know the Austin Group finally settled on wording that does > indeed explicitly state that unpatched bash 5.0 is buggy: Not exactly. The decision was that bash-5.0 conformed to the original wording, so the group adopted new wording to standardize the bash-4.4 behavior. Bash-5.1 will revert to the bash-4.4 behavior; the change has been in the devel branch since last October. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/