freebsd stable - May 2012 - bash 4.2 patchlevel 28

Noted that the following syntax is broken somewhere between 4.2
patchlevel 10 and 28.  I'm sure its because we shouldn't be doing that
over here at big purple, but we do ... and its a PITA.  I'm bisecting to
find out what is going on.

test:
VARIABLE="$(uname)"
bash: command substitution: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token
`)'
bash: command substitution: line 3: `uname)"'

Odd, but his works at patchlevel 10

sean

On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 13:07 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> Noted that the following syntax is broken somewhere between 4.2
> patchlevel 10 and 28.  I'm sure its because we shouldn't be doing
that
> over here at big purple, but we do ... and its a PITA.  I'm bisecting
to
> find out what is going on.
> 
> test:
> VARIABLE="$(uname)"
> bash: command substitution: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token
> `)'
> bash: command substitution: line 3: `uname)"'
> 
> Odd, but his works at patchlevel 10
> 
> sean
At least that was easy.  It's patch level 12.  Sequential sort pays
dividends today.

Sean

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On Thu, 24 May 2012 13:07-0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> Noted that the following syntax is broken somewhere between 4.2
> patchlevel 10 and 28.  I'm sure its because we shouldn't be doing
that
> over here at big purple, but we do ... and its a PITA.  I'm bisecting
to
> find out what is going on.
> 
> test:
> VARIABLE="$(uname)"
> bash: command substitution: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token
> `)'
> bash: command substitution: line 3: `uname)"'
> 
> Odd, but his works at patchlevel 10
I'm unable to reproduce this behaviour on one of my systems:

trond@enterprise:~>bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.28(0)-release (amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0)
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
trond@enterprise:~>my_var="$(uname)"
trond@enterprise:~>echo $my_var
FreeBSD
trond@enterprise:~>

I'm not sure what's going on in your case.

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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:07:55PM -0700, Sean Bruno
wrote:
> Noted that the following syntax is broken somewhere between 4.2
> patchlevel 10 and 28.  I'm sure its because we shouldn't be doing
that
> over here at big purple, but we do ... and its a PITA.  I'm bisecting
to
> find out what is going on.
Hi Sean,
Were you able to track down which patch 10-28 broke this for you?

thanks,
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)