Re: [Smslink-users] FreeBSD bash upgrade from 3.2 to 4 breaks sms_stats

[Philippe A. <pa...@ib...>]

Hello Nicki,

Thanks a lot for your fix. I integrated it in my repository and posted a
new export of the upcoming 0.56b-4 in the "devel" section, available here:

<http://smslink.sourceforge.net/archive/devel/>

Cheers. Bye.

Ph. A.

Nicki de Wet wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I can report that the simple suggestion by Chet Ramey solved the problem.
> Thanks Chet.
> 
> Here is an extract from his email:
> 
>> As of bash-4, bash parses the commands within $(...) at the time the word
>> is read, rather than deferring the parse until the subshell is created to
>> perform the command substitution.  This is required by Posix to avoid the
>> burden of forcing the application programmer to match parentheses inside
>> the command substitution.
>>
>> One of the consequences is that bash enforces the rules about
>> here-document
>> delimiters more strictly.  The delimiter must be the only word on the line
>> and must be followed immediately by a newline.
>>
>> I will look at relaxing these rules for bash-4.1, but bash-4.0 does not
>> allow
>> here-documents in command substitutions to be delimited by end-of-file.
>>
>>>>   138  EOT_BC)
>> This is the error.  It should really be
>>
>> EOT_BC
>> )
>>
>> Chet
> 
> This is the diff for the change for sms_stats:
> 138c138,139
> < EOT_BC)
> ---
>> EOT_BC
>> )
> 
> Regards,
> Nicki
> 
> 
> 

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