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Re: bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken


Larry Breyer wrote:
What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ?

Did you bother reading the ANNOUNCEMENT?


I blindly performed a cygwin update, rebooted, and attempted startx.
X came up OK but the terminals would not respond to keyboard input.
Looking at the output of startx it became apparent something was
seriously wrong with /bin/sh (/bin/bash).

I got syntax errors on blank lines.

I also found, by adding little debugging stuff, like 'ls $XAPPLRESDIR',
that the shell was quoting env variables.  I was getting "no such file
or directory" on valid paths because the shell was including single
quotes around the path.  At least that's what it looked like.

Really odd. I solved the problem by reverting to bash 3.1.17.

-- Matthew The hippo made me do it! What? What do you mean you can't see the hippo?


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