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glaucus

bash

  • 5.2.37 is broken
  • autoreconf breaks build
  • Cross breaks with LIBS=-lnsss as it links host man2html to cross nsss
  • Does not link against libedit even with LIBS=-ledit and when using libreadline.a; unlike dash and yash
  • Links against terminfo from netbsd-curses on glaucus; is --with-curses needed?
  • Is bin/bashbug needed?
  • Modify CFLAGS to configure:
CFLAGS="-DSYS_BASHRC='\"/etc/bashrc\"' \
        -DSYS_BASH_LOGOUT='\"/etc/bash_logout\"' \
        -DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE='\"/usr/bin\"' \
        -DSTANDARD_UTILS_PATH='\"/usr/bin\"' \
        -DNON_INTERACTIVE_LOGIN_SHELLS \
        -DSSH_SOURCE_BASHRC"
  • We need a decent /etc/profile for bash (also unset TERMCAP?)
  • Do we need to set TERMCAP_LIB=/usr/lib/libncursesw.a (probably not, void does this though)
  • Does not cross compile well (hardcodes default variables)
  • The following packages depend on bash:
    • binutils: ld/genscripts.sh fails to build with yash and oksh possibly due to POSIXLY_CORRECT
    • expat: buildconf.sh uses bash
    • libcap
    • libedit
    • toybox: hard to patch
    • zlib-ng

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