Re: [gentoo-dev] bash-4.0 regression heads up (escaped semicolons in subshells)

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday 22 February 2009 18:03:23 Dawid Węgliński wrote:
> On Sunday 22 of February 2009 23:39:11 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 February 2009 17:30:09 Dawid Węgliński wrote:
> > > On Sunday 22 of February 2009 00:27:10 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > looks like bash-4.0 has broken semicolon escaping in subshells.  this
> > > > comes up when using find's -exec like we do in a few places in
> > > > eclasses: ls=$(find "$1" -name '*.po' -exec basename {} .po \;);
> > > > shift you can work around the issue in a couple of ways:
> > > >  - quote the semicolon:
> > > > 	.... ';')
> > > >  - use backticks
> > > > 	`find .... \;`
> > > >
> > > > i'll tweak the eclasses to use quoting for now
> > >
> > > FYI. Not only find's semicolons are affected. It also happens in case
> > > ;; construction.
> >
> > embedded case statements in $(...) subshells have always been broken.
> > bash-4.0 is supposed to fix that.  if you have some code that is broken,
> > please post it so i can push it upstream.
>
> It wasn't me who experienced that, but a user:
>
> 13:50 < diabel-> <<<          dir /usr/share/doc/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3
> 13:50 < diabel->
> /var/tmp/binpkgs/x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3/temp/environment: line 2989:
> błąd składni przy nieoczekiwanym znaczniku `;;'
> 13:50 < diabel->
> /var/tmp/binpkgs/x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3/temp/environment: line 2989: `
>      ;;' * * ERROR: x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.9.1-r3 failed.
>
> All it states is syntax error near double semicolons.

unfortunately, that info isnt useful in any way.  it looks like it's a binpkg 
though, so getting the files again should be possible.  please have the user 
find that file from the binpkg and report a bug.
-mike