Bug#619786: texi2dvi: Syntax error: Bad function name when dash is /bin/sh (uses "local" as function name)

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 27.03.11 Jonathan Nieder (jrnieder@gmail.com) wrote:

Hi,

> With dash is /bin/sh, texi2dvi doesn't seem to work:
> 
You forwarded that bug only to the bug mailing list. Today I wanted
submit it to their official BTS, but failed to reproduce the bug:

hille@drachi:~/t1$ texi2dvi a.texi
egrep: Invalid range end
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
entering extended mode
(./a.texi (/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
Loading texinfo [version 2008-04-18.10]: pdf, fonts, page headings, tables,
conditionals, indexing, sectioning, toc, environments, defuns, macros,
cross references, insertions,
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex
This is `epsf.tex' v2.7.3 <23 July 2005>
) localization, formatting, and turning on texinfo input format.) [1]
)
Output written on a.dvi (1 page, 504 bytes).
Transcript written on a.log.
hille@drachi:~/t1$ ls -l /bin/*sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 811156 Apr 10  2010 /bin/bash*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     21 Feb 11 15:46 /bin/csh -> /etc/alternatives/csh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  84144 Dec 15 00:09 /bin/dash*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Feb 11 16:42 /bin/rbash -> bash*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 May 21 18:19 /bin/sh -> dash*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Feb 11 16:42 /bin/sh.distrib -> dash*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     13 Feb 11 15:32 /bin/tcsh -> /usr/bin/tcsh*

This is not Debian unstable, but Debian stable but it should not make
any difference. What am I missing?


Thanks,
  H.
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