ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU Bash 4.4.28 uploaded.

[Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan.guerrero@gmx.de) [via djgpp-announce@delorie.com]]

This is a port of GNU Bash 4.4.28 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell, a complete implementation
of the POSIX.2 shell spec, but also with interactive command line editing,
job control on architectures that support it, csh-like features such as
history substitution and brace expansion, and a slew of other features.



DJGPP specific changes.
=======================

- This port is based on the last port of bash to DJGPP (aka bsh4253*.zip).

- The port checks at run time if LFN support is available or not and
selects the file names of temporary files that are created accordingly.

- The port now supports colorized printing on terminal in the same fashion
as other DJGPP ports like grep and diffutils do. This does not mean that
it replaces the colorization support of those programs. It means that in
case like makefiles, where the output can colorized, this is supported by
settimg the environment variable TERM=djgpp the output produced by the
makefile run will be colorized. Of course any other program that honors
the TERM variable should benefit from the colorization support.

- The port has been compiled using a C library version compiled from
current repository code. To avoid any nmalloc related issues, the
old malloc functions have been compiled instead of nmalloc.

- There may exist much more DOS specific bugs in this port that have
still not been discovered and that will be fixed as they appear.

- The testsuite is POSIX centric and has not been ported. Especially
assumptions about paths that are POSIX specific make it really difficult
to adjust the testsuite to DOS. Currently the port can only be tested
by using it.
It is also not clear at all if this port does work on FreeDOS and
OpenDos in a reliably way.

- The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3, Win98SE,
MS-DOS 7.10 using DOSLFN 0.41f and MS-DOS 6.22 using DOSLFN 0.41f.
There is no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-
like OS. Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible
to configure and compile without LFN support. The port has been
compiled using gcc346 and bnu2351b.

- The coprocess support and the coproc reserved word have been disabled.
This feature requires special pipe support and this may be implemented
in the future.

- To be able to build this port you may need to have LFN support.

- If NLS support is wanted, then the sources must be reconfigured passing
the nls option to config.bat.


As usual, all djgpp specific files (diffs, README files, etc.) are stored
in the "djgpp" directory. The sources have been configured to be build
in the "0build" directory. If for some reason it does not work for you,
delete its contents and configure from scratch again.

Please read the docs to become familiar with this product.


Here is an extract of the NEWS file showing the user visible changes
from the last port (GNU Bash 4.2.53) to this one:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


This is a terse description of the new features added to bash-4.4 since
the release of bash-4.3. As always, the manual page (doc/bash.1) is
the place to look for complete descriptions.

1. New Features in Bash

a. There is now a settable configuration #define that will cause the shell
to exit if the shell is running setuid without the -p option and setuid
to the real uid fails.

b. Command and process substitutions now turn off the `-v' option when
executing, as other shells seem to do.

c. The default value for the `checkhash' shell option may now be set at
compile time with a #define.

d. The `mapfile' builtin now has a -d option to use an arbitrary character
as the record delimiter, and a -t option to strip the delimiter as
supplied with -d.

e. The maximum number of nested recursive calls to `eval' is now settable in
config-top.h; the default is no limit.

f. The `-p' option to declare and similar builtins will display attributes for
named variables even when those variables have not been assigned values
(which are technically unset).

g. The maximum number of nested recursive calls to `source' is now settable
in config-top.h; the default is no limit.

h. All builtin commands recognize the `--help' option and print a usage
summary.

i. Bash does not allow function names containing `/' and `=' to be exported.

j. The `ulimit' builtin has new -k (kqueues) and -P (pseudoterminals) options.

k. The shell now allows `time ; othercommand' to time null commands.

l. There is a new `--enable-function-import' configuration option to allow
importing shell functions from the environment; import is enabled by
default.

m. `printf -v var ""' will now set `var' to the empty string, as if `var=""'
had been executed.

n. GLOBIGNORE, the pattern substitution word expansion, and programmable
completion match filtering now honor the value of the `nocasematch' option.

o. There is a new ${parameter@spec} family of operators to transform the
value of `parameter'.

p. Bash no longer attempts to perform compound assignment if a variable on the
rhs of an assignment statement argument to `declare' has the form of a
compound assignment (e.g., w='(word)' ; declare foo=$w); compound
assignments are accepted if the variable was already declared as an array,
but with a warning.

q. The declare builtin no longer displays array variables using the compound
assignment syntax with quotes; that will generate warnings when re-used as
input, and isn't necessary.

r. Executing the rhs of && and || will no longer cause the shell to fork if
it's not necessary.

s. The `local' builtin takes a new argument: `-', which will cause it to save
and the single-letter shell options and restore their previous values at
function return.

t. `complete' and `compgen' have a new `-o nosort' option, which forces
readline to not sort the completion matches.

u. Bash now allows waiting for the most recent process substitution, since it
appears as $!.

v. The `unset' builtin now unsets a scalar variable if it is subscripted with
a `0', analogous to the ${var[0]} expansion.

w. `set -i' is no longer valid, as in other shells.

x. BASH_SUBSHELL is now updated for process substitution and group commands
in pipelines, and is available with the same value when running any exit
trap.

y. Bash now checks $INSIDE_EMACS as well as $EMACS when deciding whether or
not bash is being run in a GNU Emacs shell window.

z. Bash now treats SIGINT received when running a non-builtin command in a
loop the way it has traditionally treated running a builtin command:
running any trap handler and breaking out of the loop.

aa. New variable: EXECIGNORE; a colon-separate list of patterns that will
cause matching filenames to be ignored when searching for commands.

bb. Aliases whose value ends in a shell metacharacter now expand in a way to
allow them to be `pasted' to the next token, which can potentially change
the meaning of a command (e.g., turning `&' into `&&').

cc. `make install' now installs the example loadable builtins and a set of
bash headers to use when developing new loadable builtins.

dd. `enable -f' now attempts to call functions named BUILTIN_builtin_load when
loading BUILTIN, and BUILTIN_builtin_unload when deleting it. This allows
loadable builtins to run initialization and cleanup code.

ee. There is a new BASH_LOADABLES_PATH variable containing a list of directories
where the `enable -f' command looks for shared objects containing loadable
builtins.

ff. The `complete_fullquote' option to `shopt' changes filename completion to
quote all shell metacharacters in filenames and directory names.

gg. The `kill' builtin now has a `-L' option, equivalent to `-l', for
compatibility with Linux standalone versions of kill.

hh. BASH_COMPAT and FUNCNEST can be inherited and set from the shell's initial
environment.

ii. inherit_errexit: a new `shopt' option that, when set, causes command
substitutions to inherit the -e option. By default, those subshells disable
-e. It's enabled as part of turning on posix mode.

jj. New prompt string: PS0. Expanded and displayed by interactive shells after
reading a complete command but before executing it.

kk. Interactive shells now behave as if SIGTSTP/SIGTTIN/SIGTTOU are set to
SIG_DFL when the shell is started, so they are set to SIG_DFL in child
processes.

ll. Posix-mode shells now allow double quotes to quote the history expansion
character.

mm. OLDPWD can be inherited from the environment if it names a directory.

nn. Shells running as root no longer inherit PS4 from the environment, closing
a security hole involving PS4 expansion performing command substitution.

oo. If executing an implicit `cd' when the `autocd' option is set, bash will
now invoke a function named `cd' if one exists before executing the `cd'
builtin.

pp. Value conversions (arithmetic expansions, case modification, etc.) now
happen when assigning elements of an array using compound assignment.

qq. There is a new option settable in config-top.h that makes multiple
directory arguments to `cd' a fatal error.

rr. Bash now uses mktemp() when creating internal temporary files; it produces
a warning at build time on many Linux systems.

2. New Features in Readline

a. The history truncation code now uses the same error recovery mechansim as
the history writing code, and restores the old version of the history file
on error. The error recovery mechanism handles symlinked history files.

b. There is a new bindable variable, `enable-bracketed-paste', which enables
support for a terminal's bracketed paste mode.

c. The editing mode indicators can now be strings and are user-settable
(new `emacs-mode-string', `vi-cmd-mode-string' and `vi-ins-mode-string'
variables). Mode strings can contain invisible character sequences.
Setting mode strings to null strings restores the defaults.

d. Prompt expansion adds the mode string to the last line of a multi-line
prompt (one with embedded newlines).

e. There is a new bindable variable, `colored-completion-prefix', which, if
set, causes the common prefix of a set of possible completions to be
displayed in color.

f. There is a new bindable command `vi-yank-pop', a vi-mode version of emacs-
mode yank-pop.

g. The redisplay code underwent several efficiency improvements for multibyte
locales.

h. The insert-char function attempts to batch-insert all pending typeahead
that maps to self-insert, as long as it is coming from the terminal.

i. rl_callback_sigcleanup: a new application function that can clean up and
unset any state set by readline's callback mode. Intended to be used
after a signal.

j. If an incremental search string has its last character removed with DEL, the
resulting empty search string no longer matches the previous line.

k. If readline reads a history file that begins with `#' (or the value of
the history comment character) and has enabled history timestamps, the
history entries are assumed to be delimited by timestamps. This allows
multi-line history entries.

l. Readline now throws an error if it parses a key binding without a
terminating `:' or whitespace.

m. The default binding for ^W in vi mode now uses word boundaries specified
by Posix (vi-unix-word-rubout is bindable command name).

n. rl_clear_visible_line: new application-callable function; clears all
screen lines occupied by the current visible readline line.

o. rl_tty_set_echoing: application-callable function that controls whether
or not readline thinks it is echoing terminal output.

p. Handle >| and strings of digits preceding and following redirection
specifications as single tokens when tokenizing the line for history
expansion.

q. Fixed a bug with displaying completions when the prefix display length
is greater than the length of the completions to be displayed.

r. The :p history modifier now applies to the entire line, so any expansion
specifying :p causes the line to be printed instead of expanded.

s. New application-callable function: rl_pending_signal(): returns the signal
number of any signal readline has caught but not yet handled.

t. New application-settable variable: rl_persistent_signal_handlers: if set
to a non-zero value, readline will enable the readline-6.2 signal handler
behavior in callback mode: handlers are installed when
rl_callback_handler_install is called and removed removed when a complete
line has been read.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a terse description of the new features added to bash-4.3 since
the release of bash-4.2. As always, the manual page (doc/bash.1) is
the place to look for complete descriptions.

1. New Features in Bash

a. The `helptopic' completion action now maps to all the help topics, not just
the shell builtins.

b. The `help' builtin no longer does prefix substring matching first, so
`help read' does not match `readonly', but will do it if exact string
matching fails.

c. The shell can be compiled to not display a message about processes that
terminate due to SIGTERM.

d. Non-interactive shells now react to the setting of checkwinsize and set
LINES and COLUMNS after a foreground job exits.

e. There is a new shell option, `globasciiranges', which, when set to on,
forces globbing range comparisons to use character ordering as if they
were run in the C locale.

f. There is a new shell option, `direxpand', which makes filename completion
expand variables in directory names in the way bash-4.1 did.

g. In Posix mode, the `command' builtin does not change whether or not a
builtin it shadows is treated as an assignment builtin.

h. The `return' and `exit' builtins accept negative exit status arguments.

i. The word completion code checks whether or not a filename containing a
shell variable expands to a directory name and appends `/' to the word
as appropriate. The same code expands shell variables in command names
when performing command completion.

j. In Posix mode, it is now an error to attempt to define a shell function
with the same name as a Posix special builtin.

k. When compiled for strict Posix conformance, history expansion is disabled
by default.

l. The history expansion character (!) does not cause history expansion when
followed by the closing quote in a double-quoted string.

m. `complete' and its siblings compgen/compopt now takes a new `-o noquote'
option to inhibit quoting of the completions.

n. Setting HISTSIZE to a value less than zero causes the history list to be
unlimited (setting it 0 zero disables the history list).

o. Setting HISTFILESIZE to a value less than zero causes the history file size
to be unlimited (setting it to 0 causes the history file to be truncated
to zero size).

p. The `read' builtin now skips NUL bytes in the input.

q. There is a new `bind -X' option to print all key sequences bound to Unix
commands.

r. When in Posix mode, `read' is interruptible by a trapped signal. After
running the trap handler, read returns 128+signal and throws away any
partially-read input.

s. The command completion code skips whitespace and assignment statements
before looking for the command name word to be completed.

t. The build process has a new mechanism for constructing separate help files
that better reflects the current set of compilation options.

u. The -nt and -ot options to test now work with files with nanosecond
timestamp resolution.

v. The shell saves the command history in any shell for which history is
enabled and HISTFILE is set, not just interactive shells.

w. The shell has `nameref' variables and new -n(/+n) options to declare and
unset to use them, and a `test -R' option to test for them.

x. The shell now allows assigning, referencing, and unsetting elements of
indexed arrays using negative subscripts (a[-1]=2, echo ${a[-1]}) which
count back from the last element of the array.

y. The {x}<word redirection feature now allows words like {array[ind]} and
can use variables with special meanings to the shell (e.g., BASH_XTRACEFD).

z. There is a new CHILD_MAX special shell variable; its value controls the
number of exited child statues the shell remembers.

aa. There is a new configuration option (--enable-direxpand-default) that
causes the `direxpand' shell option to be enabled by default.

bb. Bash does not do anything special to ensure that the file descriptor
assigned to X in {x}<foo remains open after the block containing it
completes.

cc. The `wait' builtin has a new `-n' option to wait for the next child to
change status.

dd. The `printf' %(...)T format specifier now uses the current time if no
argument is supplied.

ee. There is a new variable, BASH_COMPAT, that controls the current shell
compatibility level.

ff. The `popd' builtin now treats additional arguments as errors.

gg. The brace expansion code now treats a failed sequence expansion as a
simple string and will continue to expand brace terms in the remainder
of the word.

hh. Shells started to run process substitutions now run any trap set on EXIT.

ii. The fc builtin now interprets -0 as the current command line.

jj. Completing directory names containing shell variables now adds a trailing
slash if the expanded result is a directory.

kk. `cd' has a new `-@' option to browse a file's extended attributes on
systems that support O_XATTR.

ll. The test/[/[[ `-v variable' binary operator now understands array
references.

2. New Features in Readline

a. Readline is now more responsive to SIGHUP and other fatal signals when
reading input from the terminal or performing word completion but no
longer attempts to run any not-allowable functions from a signal handler
context.

b. There are new bindable commands to search the history for the string of
characters between the beginning of the line and the point
(history-substring-search-forward, history-substring-search-backward)

c. Readline allows quoted strings as the values of variables when setting
them with `set'. As a side effect, trailing spaces and tabs are ignored
when setting a string variable's value.

d. The history library creates a backup of the history file when writing it
and restores the backup on a write error.

e. New application-settable variable: rl_filename_stat_hook: a function called
with a filename before using it in a call to stat(2). Bash uses it to
expand shell variables so things like $HOME/Downloads have a slash
appended.

f. New bindable function `print-last-kbd-macro', prints the most-recently-
defined keyboard macro in a reusable format.

g. New user-settable variable `colored-stats', enables use of colored text
to denote file types when displaying possible completions (colored analog
of visible-stats).

h. New user-settable variable `keyseq-timout', acts as an inter-character
timeout when reading input or incremental search strings.

i. New application-callable function: rl_clear_history. Clears the history list
and frees all readline-associated private data.

j. New user-settable variable, show-mode-in-prompt, adds a characters to the
beginning of the prompt indicating the current editing mode.

k. New application-settable variable: rl_input_available_hook; function to be
called when readline detects there is data available on its input file
descriptor.

l. Readline calls an application-set event hook (rl_event_hook) after it gets
a signal while reading input (read returns -1/EINTR but readline does not
handle the signal immediately) to allow the application to handle or
otherwise note it.

m. If the user-settable variable `history-size' is set to a value less than
0, the history list size is unlimited.

n. New application-settable variable: rl_signal_event_hook; function that is
called when readline is reading terminal input and read(2) is interrupted
by a signal. Currently not called for SIGHUP or SIGTERM.

o. rl_change_environment: new application-settable variable that controls
whether or not Readline modifies the environment (currently readline
modifies only LINES and COLUMNS).




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The port consists of the usual three packages that have been produced using
djdev20X (CVS repository code) and can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com
and mirrors as (time stamp 2023-03-26):


GNU Bash 4.4.28 binary, info and man format documentation:
http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh4428b.zip

GNU Bash 4.4.28 dvi, html, pdf and ps format documentation:
http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh4428d.zip

GNU Bash 4.4.28 source:
http://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/bsh4428s.zip



Send GNU Bash specific bug reports to <bug-...@gnu.org>.
Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port
to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <dj...@delorie.com>.


Enjoy.

Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan.g...@gmx.de>

[vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com]

Way cool

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