Re: [Mingw-msys] bash 2.05b can't use cd d:/ , only use cd /d

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

Quoting Keith MARSHALL <kei...@to...>:

> Earnie Boyd wrote, quoting me:
> [re:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/bash-2.05b-MSYS.tar.bz2?download]
>>>
>>> Ok, I'd expect that to work then, although I haven't actually
>>> found a need to try it.  If it ain't broke, don't fix it;  why
>>> replace something which works, unless you absolutely need some
>>> feature provided by bash-2.05, which isn't in 2.04?
>>
>> Why would you *expect* a *snapshot* to work?  It needs some
>> development work.
>
> Ah.  I'd overlooked that it is in "snapshot";  I'd *hope* that it
> might work, but *expect* that it may need some bug fixes :-)
>
>> What happens if you start it without any other msys-1.0.dll
>> initialized?
>
> See my later post.  It seems to work fine, if it's invoked as `bash',
> but not if it's invoked as `sh'.
>

Yes I saw that.  So some code that is invoked as bash isn't invoked as 
sh and should be.  The bash-2.05b source is in CVS 
msys/packages/bash/2.05b if someone cares to submit a patch.

Earnie Boyd

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