Re: bin/40256: sh bug breaks etcupdate

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/40256; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/40256: sh bug breaks etcupdate
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:06:48 +0100

 Jukka Salmi wrote:
 >  You're missing some recent changes:
 >  
 >  $ diff /tmp/sh.mine /tmp/sh.ce 
 >  1,2c1
 >  < /bin/sh:
 >  <      $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.17 2007/12/01 10:16:06 yamt Exp $
 >  ---
 >  >      $NetBSD: crt0.c,v 1.5 2007/09/27 10:51:18 dogcow Exp $
 >  7c6
 >  <      $NetBSD: eval.c,v 1.95 2008/12/21 03:15:32 christos Exp $
 >  ---
 >  >      $NetBSD: eval.c,v 1.94 2008/10/31 14:38:42 christos Exp $
 >  9c8
 >  <      $NetBSD: expand.c,v 1.81 2008/12/21 17:15:09 christos Exp $
 >  ---
 >  >      $NetBSD: expand.c,v 1.80 2008/12/20 20:36:44 christos Exp $
 >  12c11
 >  <      $NetBSD: jobs.c,v 1.68 2008/12/21 17:16:11 christos Exp $
 >  ---
 >  >      $NetBSD: jobs.c,v 1.66 2008/10/16 15:36:23 dholland Exp $
 >  
 >  The problem should be fixed with those revisions.
 
 Yes, it is. The broken version comes with latest releng autobuilder
 (ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200812210000Z/).
 
 Using a self-compiled bin/sh from latest sources actually fixes
 the problem and makes etcupdate work again.
 
 Christoph