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Re: shift: can't shift that many
- To: "John A. Turner" <john dot turner at pobox dot com>, XEmacs on NT <xemacs-nt at xemacs dot org>, Cygwin mailing list <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, bug-bash at gnu dot org
- Subject: Re: shift: can't shift that many
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 05:17:08 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- "John A. Turner" <john.turner@pobox.com> wrote:
> "John A. Turner" wrote:
> >
> > I've successfully built a cygwin version of XEmacs 21.2.34
> >
> > however, during make install, I get lots of msgs from bash related
> > to the shift built-in - as in the subject:
> >
> > shift: can't shift that many
>
> never mind - I can't believe this, but I've been bitten by the
> "sh is really ash" feature in cygwin
>
> I've been using cygwin long enough to know better, but somehow
> after an update I forgot to fix that
>
Rather than using a workaround, why not submit a patch to ash for this feature?
Regards,
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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