On 2/16/07, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Damn. I tried those patches and the ones from debian unstable. I don't
> know that the hell is going on. I might just have to throw in the
> towel here. I can see in src/builtins.def that : is supposed to be an
> alias for true, but it ain't working for me.
I'll understand if you want to ignore this, but I figured it out. The
culprit is... LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and sort. Ouch.
Part of the dash built puts together a source file to be used as a
sorted btree representing the set of builtin commands. This script
mkbuiltins uses some nasty awk and sort to make a sorted struct.
With UTF-8, it came out as
const struct builtincmd builtincmd[] = {
{ ":", truecmd, 3 },
{ ".", dotcmd, 3 },
{ "[", testcmd, 0 },
...
With LANG=C, it was
const struct builtincmd builtincmd[] = {
{ ".", dotcmd, 3 },
{ ":", truecmd, 3 },
{ "[", testcmd, 0 },
With the dot (.) coming before the colon (:). With the original
struct, : was never found by bsearch in the ordered tree, and so it
couldn't find any command called :.
Lesson learned: always use LANG=C when building.
--
Dan
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