1 NAME:             bash

     2 VERSION:          4.1

     3 DESCRIPTION:      GNU Bourne Again Shell

     4 LICENSE:          GPLv3, GFDLv1.2

     5 PACKAGE:          SUNWbash

     6 PROJECT_URL:      http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/bash.html

     7 SOURCE_DOWNLOAD:  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.1.tar.gz

     8 SUPPORT:          B

     9 BUGTRAQ:          solaris/utility/bash

    10 OSR:              12655

    11 COMMENTS:

    12     

    13     Needs special compiler flags and additional Solaris patches

    14 

    15 ===============================================================

    16 

    17 Explanation of some unusual compiler flags:

    18 

    19 1. We must use the c99 C Compiler driver, and not cc -xc99=%all.

    20 Some functions from the Standard Math Library are only available

    21 with the c99 driver, for example, isinf(3M).

    22 

    23 2. The included libreadline.a and libsh.a want to use FIONREAD.

    24 The Linux assumption is that FIONREAD is defined in <sys/ioctl.h>,

    25 but on Solaris it is defined in <sys/filio.h>. The workaround is

    26 to raise -DSOLARIS on compiler line, and #ifdef guard the inclusion

    27 of <sys/filio.h> on the SOLARIS macro being raised.

    28 

    29 3. Bash supports full multi-byte and internationalization. Because

    30 we want this feature, we must raise all the C99 conformance compiler

    31 flags, in order to make available all the wchar_t Standard C Library

    32 functions.

    33 

    34 4. We want to use the curses library in /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1.

    35 But because we are raising the full C99 conformance macros, the

    36 compiler will automatically link /usr/xpg4/lib/libcurses.so.2.

    37 The workaround is to pass /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1 with absolute

    38 path in ./configure during the libcurses availability test. This

    39 gets passed verbatim to the Makefile.

    40 

    41 5. The file $(top_srcdir)/support/signames.c creates some bogus

    42 signal names (named SIGJUNK%d) because it does not know about

    43 Solaris' SIGJVM1 and SIGJVM2. This, in turn, creates a big problem

    44 with the actual number of signal names  defined in

    45 $(top_srcdir)/signames.h -- namely, the number of signal strings

    46 in the signal_names array ends up exceeding the number of char pointers

    47 defined by NSIG + 4, and the compiler aborts. We work around this by

    48 patching $(top_srcdir)/support/signames.c appropriately, and create

    49 the signal name strings for SIGJVM1 and SIGJVM2.

    50 

    51 6. The bash test harness passes 100% if and only if all the UTF-8

    52 locales are installed on the build/test system.

    53 

    54 7. The test harness will, for certain tests, print out what appears

    55 to be errors. Please read the output of the test harness, and determine

    56 that what appears to be an error is actually an error. Some tests will

    57 warn that test output is expected, and does not necessarily indicate

    58 an error condition.

    59 

    60 ===============================================================

    61 

    62 All upstream bash 4.1 patches are incorporated in this release.

    63 

    64 ===============================================================

    65