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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 05:17:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: shift: can't shift that many
To: "John A. Turner" <john DOT turner AT pobox DOT com>,
        XEmacs on NT <xemacs-nt AT xemacs DOT org>,
        Cygwin mailing list <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>, bug-bash AT gnu DOT org
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--- "John A. Turner" <john DOT turner AT pobox DOT com> wrote:
> "John A. Turner" wrote:
> > 
> > I've successfully built a cygwin version of XEmacs 21.2.34
> > 
> > however, during make install, I get lots of msgs from bash related
> > to the shift built-in - as in the subject:
> > 
> > shift: can't shift that many
> 
> never mind - I can't believe this, but I've been bitten by the
> "sh is really ash" feature in cygwin
> 
> I've been using cygwin long enough to know better, but somehow
> after an update I forgot to fix that
> 

Rather than using a workaround, why not submit a patch to ash for this feature?

Regards,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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