New Bash Release Broken?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin X)]

Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> It is my habit to update the entire cygwin installation at least once a 
> week.
> Earlier today, I updated and got the new version of bash, 3.1.17(8).
> It appears broken.  The .profile I have happily used for years gives it
> fits (the same .profile works fine if I invoke ksh instead of bash) and
> other shell scripts that used to work, no longer do.  The shell typically
> produces errors like:
> 
> : invalid option name
> ': not a valid identifier
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> : command not found
> -bash: /cygdrive/c/usr/home/tundra/.profile: line 15: syntax error near 
> unexpect'd token `{
> 'bash: /cygdrive/c/usr/home/tundra/.profile: line 15: `{
> 
> In this case, the "script" was .profile and the first 15 lines look
> like this:
> 
> set -o ignoreeof
> export ignoreeof
> export EDITOR=emacs
> export MACHINE=`uname -n`
> export PAGER=less
> export TZ=CST6CDT
> 
> 
> TERM=vt100
> 
> 
> # Function definitions
> 
> function PyD
> {
>     cd $HOME/Dev/python/$1
> }
> 
> 
> Ideas anyone?  Is there a change to bash syntax and I just didn't get
> the memo?


That's one way to put it.

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-09/msg00006.html>


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