Re: Defaults when cross-compiling

2023-11-08 Thread Michael T. Kloos
It seems to me that Autoconf (configure) is making some bad choices if it is just guessing that support exists like that, especially when it has a guaranteed fallback.  It's job is to setup the build for the target host system.  I was able to fix the build by using --without-bash-malloc. 

Idea: jobs(1) -i to print only :%ID:s

2023-11-08 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Hello. Well first i was thinking of a "%*" special so i can say "kill %*", but get_job_spec() and usage does not look promising. The task: close all jobs at once (and dreaming of %ID1-%ID2,ID3-ID4, etc). Ie i often (really) am doing things that require many instances of less(1), or git(1) log,

Re: posix command search and execution

2023-11-08 Thread Mike Jonkmans
On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 11:52:19PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Date:Tue, 7 Nov 2023 23:04:10 +0100 > From:Mike Jonkmans > Message-ID: <20231107220410.gc27...@jonkmans.nl> > > | It makes sense to partition the builtins in three categories with > | a separate name

Re: posix command search and execution

2023-11-08 Thread Mike Jonkmans
On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 10:38:19AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: > On 11/7/23 5:04 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote: > > It depends on your requirements. If you want something that is easy to > explain to users, you want to reduce the distinction between `intrinsics' > and `regular builtins' to something as

Re: posix command search and execution

2023-11-08 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 7 Nov 2023 23:04:10 +0100 From:Mike Jonkmans Message-ID: <20231107220410.gc27...@jonkmans.nl> | In particular, a user function with the name of a standard utility, | will be called at this point. Yes. That much is very clear. | Chet mentioned

Re: posix command search and execution

2023-11-08 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/7/23 5:37 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 11:49:25AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote: On 11/7/23 8:54 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote: ... Look at https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=854 for a discussion of this issue. Thanks for the link, I find that very hard to read

Re: posix command search and execution

2023-11-08 Thread Chet Ramey
On 11/7/23 5:04 PM, Mike Jonkmans wrote: | > 1d) Lists 20 fixed utility names (like alias, cd etc.) that are | > to be invoked at his point. No PATH search yet. | > These are the `regular builtins'. In the next standard the ones listed are the intrinsic builtins, and