[PATCH MIPS] Work around Bash 4.2 bug

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@imgtec.com
Mon Oct 10 13:34:00 GMT 2016


On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> >> 	* emulparams/elf32bmipn32-defs.sh: Shift quote of
> >> 	"x$EMULATION_NAME" to the left to work around
> >> 	<http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/bash42-007>.
> >
> > Patch approved and applies - with Hans-Peter's suggestion of a comment added as well.
> 
> Great, thank you!
> 
> The more general question of how to handle those buggy shells and how
> widespread they are remains, but at least this solves the immediate
> problem that we observed.

 I'll see what I can do here, although I'm a bit loaded right now.  I used 
to write lots of `autoconf' stuff, but not in a while, so I need to dust 
off my old knowledge.

  Maciej



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