The following reply was made to PR pkg/33220; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: joerg@britannica.bec.de
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/33220: bash builtins cannot access bash symbols
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 21:13:34 +0200

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 On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:30:00PM +0000, taviso@sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
 > >Description:
 > The bash shell allows you to write builtins and store them in a shared
 > object, which are then loaded using the enable command. On NetBSD, this
 > doesnt work as symbols that bash exports, such as make_builtin_argv()
 > and last_pid_created are not available. This works on three linux systems
 > I tested.
 
 I don't know what the Linux systems do, but bash on NetBSD gives exactly
 the results the default build systems create. It does *not* export the
 symbols at all.
 
 Try the attached patch.
 
 Joerg
 
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 Index: Makefile
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 RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/shells/bash/Makefile,v
 retrieving revision 1.20
 diff -u -r1.20 Makefile
 --- Makefile	5 Mar 2006 16:27:28 -0000	1.20
 +++ Makefile	8 Apr 2006 19:13:22 -0000
 @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
  USE_PKGLOCALEDIR=	yes
  GNU_CONFIGURE=		yes
  MAKE_ENV+=		INSTALL_SCRIPT=${INSTALL_SCRIPT:Q}
 +MAKE_ENV+=		LOCAL_LDFLAGS=-Wl,-export-dynamic
  CPPFLAGS+=		-DDEFAULT_PATH_VALUE="\"/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/local/bin\""
  TEST_TARGET=		test
  
 
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