bash 3.1.18 seems seriously broken

[Eric Blake]

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According to Larry Breyer on 9/27/2006 3:22 PM:
> What changed from bash 3.1.17 to 3.1.18 ?

I don't know, but let me know when you find out :)
(There is no 3.1.18 - the latest official bash is 3.1.17, at cygwin
release 8, but upstream is very unlikely to release 3.1.18 since 3.2 is in
beta now.)

> 
> 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.

That means your script has CRLF line endings, but resides on a binary
mount point.  Fix it in one of three ways:
change the script to use plain LF line endings (with d2u)
change to a text mount point (with mount)
change the script to ignore whitespace (make the first non-comment line
set IFS appropriately, as in this snippet:
IFS=' ''	''
'
that would be space, tab, then either CRLF or LF depending on whether your
script is on a binary or text mount)

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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