bash 4.2, parameter expansion problem

[Juergen Daubert]

Hello,

I stumbled over the following while trying to build xterm from sources 
with bash 4.2:

 $:~> /bin/sh --version | head -n1
 GNU bash, version 4.2.0(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
 $:~> /bin/sh
 sh-4.2$ a="${b:-'/foo/bar'}"
 sh: bad substitution: no closing `}' in ${b:-'/foo/bar'}
 sh-4.2$ a="${b:-'bar'}"
 sh-4.2$ a="${b:-/foo/bar}"
 sh-4.2$
 
looks like bash, when called as sh, doesn't like the / character in 
single-quoted strings.


Thanks
Juergen

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