Re: fix broken bash package for 10.9

Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
Organization Fink Core Team
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/22/14, 4:56 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Alexander,
>       We may want to add the proposed patch from…
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2013-07/msg00011.html
>
> which was reviewed here…
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2013-07/msg00014.html
>
> and accepted for a future bash release (4.3?). This is a crashing bug on
> 10.9 where the misuse of strcpy will
> cause a runtime error due to the hardened io routines.
> /              Jack /
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Jack Howarth <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Alexander,
>            While debugging the stage4 issue with David's llvm34
>     packaging, I discovered that the test suite in llvm34 hung when fink
>     bash was installed on 10.9. Adding the missing InfoTest reveals that
>     the bash is currently broken on 10.9 and will hang at…
>
>     run-errors
>
>     The attached bash.info <http://bash.info> and bash42-001-047.tar.bz2
>     patches bash-4.2-2 up to the current patch level 47 and allows the
>     added IntoTest to succeed on 10.9. Can you place
>     the bash42-001-047.tar.bz2 on the fink mirror so we can unbreak our
>     bash for 10.9? Thanks in advance.
>                     Jack
>
>

The tarball has been uploaded, but I'll hold off on adding the .info 
until we're sure that all of the 10.9 issues have been addressed.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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