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From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin bash build- command substitution fails
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:35:20 -0500
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On 12/17/19 4:00 PM, Dave Taylor wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 12
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
> I'm trying to do a Cygwin build of the bash git repo at bminor/bash on
> github.
> 
> The configure (no options) and make (no options) finish successfully, but
> the build fails when doing $()-style command substitutions, claiming that
> the trailing paren is unexpected:
> 
> % echo $(echo hiya)
> bash: command substitution: line 9: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> bash: command substitution: line 9: `echo hiya)'

This is generally the result of using something other than bison to
generate the parser.

Chet

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