Re: error: ‘eval_builtin’ undeclared

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/30/18 2:07 PM, Larissa Braz wrote:

> I was running it using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I used the README instructions:
> "To compile Bash, type `./configure', then `make'. "
> 
> git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash
> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash>
> ./configure
> make
>  
> 
>     There doesn't seem to be. Running these commands on an ubuntu 14.04 system
>     with gcc-4.8 results in a working bash binary:
> 
> 
>     git clone http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash
>     <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/bash>
>     cd bash
>     bash ./configure -C
>     make
>     ./bash -c 'echo $BASH_VERSION'
>     ./bash --version
> 
> The error disappears when I use "bash ./configure -C" instead of just
> "./configure". Is it ok to use it instead of the README instructions?

I think it's something specific to your system.

I ran `bash ./configure ; make' and got a working binary. I ran
`sh ./configure ; make' and `./configure ; make' (they're equivalent)
and got working binaries with both.

I guess you should do whatever your system needs to get a working binary.

Chet

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