Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Since the update to bash 4.0, the port needs to be built with bison instead of the system yacc.  The port has been updated to do this; make sure you have version 1.111 of the port's Makefile. Ok,

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: Ok, that's what I have. I'm rebuilding it now. And, confirmed. The rebuilt bash is fine now. Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca writes: I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All of a sudden when I login, my standard .profile and .bashrc are causing a bunch of error messages, like so -bash: command substitution: line 39: syntax error

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All of a sudden when I login, my standard .profile and .bashrc are causing a bunch of error messages, like so -bash: command substitution:

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org writes: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All of a sudden when I login, my standard .profile and .bashrc are causing a bunch of

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org writes: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:49:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I'm running the shells/bash port on 6.3, and I recently ran a portupgrade. All of a sudden when

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Oh, crap, I flubbed it about the bash error. It's SO often something claimed by folks, I knee-jerked that it had to be a previous line in error. Sorry. Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org writes: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chuck Robey chu...@telenix.org writes: I've had stuff like this happen to me, once in a while. it's NEVER a fact of bash really suddenly losing something so major. What you have to is to look at previous parts of your code, for things like unclosed parens, unclosed quotes, things like