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

[Chet Ramey]

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.

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