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RE: bash prompt problem - some more observations
- From: "Robinson, Mark" <Mark dot Robinson at vignette dot com>
- To: "Eric Blake" <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:00:08 +1100
- Subject: RE: bash prompt problem - some more observations
Eric
I have been using a custom bash compiled without multibyte characters
for a couple of weeks now without problems. I started with the Cygwin
src package version 3.00.16(12)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) and applied the
following patch:
-------------------8<----------------------------
--- ./bash-3.0-12.sh.save 2005-11-25 09:21:16.897833600 +1100
+++ ./bash-3.0-12.sh 2005-11-25 09:21:20.573118400 +1100
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
--mandir='${prefix}/share/man' --infodir='${prefix}/share/info' \
--libexecdir='${sbindir}' --localstatedir="${localstatedir}" \
--datadir='${prefix}/share' --without-libiconv-prefix \
- --without-libintl-prefix --with-installed-readline )
+ --without-libintl-prefix --disable-multibyte )
}
reconf() {
(cd ${topdir} && \
------------------>8----------------------------
cheers
mark
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Blake [mailto:ebb9@byu.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 August 2005 9:47 PM
> To: Robinson, Mark
> Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: bash prompt problem - some more observations
>
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> According to Robinson, Mark on 8/23/2005 1:45 AM:
> > howdy
> >
> > so I downloaded the cygwin bash source and built it without
> multibyte
> > character support and guess what? no bug.
>
> So does cygwin need to support multibyte characters in bash,
> or should I
> make this configuration the default? Being a native English speaker
> myself, I don't have much cause to try to use multibyte
> character prompts
> or command output in my normal usage to know if cygwin supports it.
>
> - --
> Life is short - so eat dessert first!
>
> Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
> volunteer cygwin bash maintainer
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