"Hans W. Horn" wrote: > This mysterious patch of Pierre: is it in that half-a-ton patch file that > comes with the bash-2.05b-17 sources? > If yes, hasn't anybody tried to get this patch back into bash mainstream?
No, this is Pierre's patch: <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=cygwin&m=109867031200979&w=2> If you run diffstat on the patch file for the -17 package, $ diffstat bash-2.05b-17.patch bashline.c | 28 config.h.in | 6 configure |12040 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- configure.in | 2 execute_cmd.c | 21 findcmd.c | 2 general.c | 9 jobs.c | 102 jobs.h | 12 lib/readline/bind.c | 2 lib/readline/display.c | 26 lib/readline/mbutil.c | 14 lib/readline/readline.c | 1 lib/readline/vi_mode.c | 7 subst.c | 43 test.c | 2 16 files changed, 8353 insertions(+), 3964 deletions(-) ...you will see that the vast majority of that is in configure, a generated file. That happens when you "autoreconf" a package to get the lastest autotool m4 macros and recreate all the generated files from *.in and *.am. When you see a package with a ginormous patch it's usually because the maintainer did "autoreconf --install --force --verbose" before packaging. But, there are some actual patches mixed in with the autoreconf noise, to be sure. Brian
