On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 04:49:05 -0600
Tom Blamer <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been following the LFS 7.0 stable book exactly, as far as I know, but
> I've hit a brick wall with building Bash in chapter 5.
> 
> For example, I see lots of messages like this in the output of "make tests":
> 
> < ./glob.tests: command substitution: line 188: syntax error near
> unexpected token `)'
> < ./glob.tests: command substitution: line 188: `echo */man*/bash.*)'
> < ./glob.tests: command substitution: line 190: syntax error near
> unexpected token `)'
> < ./glob.tests: command substitution: line 190: `echo */man*/bash.*)"'
> 
> My host system is Fedora 16, x86_64.
> 
> There are at least four threads where other people had this problem or
> something similar, and no one ever reported what the issue was. What's the
> deal?
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2009-September/036410.html
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2010-January/037338.html
> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2011-November/041616.html
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2010-February/037873.html

We don't know. No one who knows what they're doing has had that
problem. No one who's had the problem has ever worked out what went
wrong and posted an explanation. All we know is that something went
wrong.

Andy
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