Install Bash 4.2 for Cygwin

Peter Rosin peda@lysator.liu.se
Fri Dec 6 18:20:00 GMT 2013


Hi!

Sorry about that, I knew the 64-bit version was newer and was convinced
it was 4.2-something. So convinced that I didn't check before writing.

Cheers,
Peter

On 2013-12-06 16:30, Javier Murillo Márquez wrote:
> Is it available for 64-bit? I installed CygWin and searched the
> package for bash 4.2 and I just found Bash 4.1.
> http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bash&arch=x86_64
> 
> 2013/12/6 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>:
>> Javier wrote:
>>> Hello!!
>>>
>>> Is possible install bash 4.2 on cygwin? Is there some patch or update for it?
>>
>> It is available for 64-bit. Not 32-bit though, we're still waiting for
>> that update (with the WORDEXP_OPTION enabled to fix wordexp(3) and
>> enabled support for loadable builtins)...
>>
>> You could probably find a 32-bit version in cygwinports.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
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