Re: Enable compgen even when programmable completions are not available?

[Fabian Groffen]

On 03-07-2023 12:05:14 -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/3/23 2:33 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> 
> > This is a Gentoo-specific problem.  When we are bootstrapping a Prefix,
> > we need an updated bash very early on in the process.  On some systems,
> > we experienced compilation failures in the readline component.  Since
> > this interactive part isn't important at this point (the bootstrapped
> > bash is simply used for executing scripts, and replaced as soon as we
> > can with a proper-built one via an ebuild instead) I decided to work
> > around compilation and runtime problems we've seen on e.g. Darwin 9 and
> > use --disable-readline (and --without-bash-malloc on musl).
> > 
> > That said, this really is a workaround.  If the bundled readline would
> > have compiled and linked fine, I'd never disabled it for the moment.
> > I'll see if I can check this week if the system in question will compile
> > a newer version or any version with readline.
> 
> I'd be interested in seeing what the compilation or linking issues are.
> If we have a complete dev environment -- one that's capable of compiling
> bash, which is more demanding of the environment than readline -- we
> should be able to fix whatever readline compilation problems come up.

I've just finished bash-5.1 on powerpc-apple-darwin9, and it completes
without problems.  So I'll remove the workaround, everything seems fine.

Thanks,
Fabian

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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