# New Ticket Created by James E Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #134164] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134164 > Some dialog from irc.perl.org #p5p this evening: ##### (08:09:00 PM) hydahy: Anyone familiar with Porting/bisect.pl bailing out early in Configure with the error "./Configure: 1: ./posthint.sh: Bad substitution" ? ... (09:10:34 PM) kid51: What is the command you provided for bisection? ... (09:17:15 PM) hydahy: Started with: ./Porting/bisect.pl --target t/io/pipe.t --start v5.31.0 -A -Alibpth="/system/lib /vendor/lib" (09:17:31 PM) hydahy: Error also occurs with ./Porting/bisect.pl --test-build -A -Alibpth="/system/lib /vendor/lib" (09:21:38 PM) kid51: Remove the first '-A' and start over. (09:23:14 PM) hydahy: ohhhh, I misunderstood the POD then (09:23:26 PM) kid51: You're not the first! (09:23:34 PM) khw: clarifying patches welcome ##### hydahy is not the first, because I know I have had to pose this question at least twice before. TonyC and other frequent bisectors, please review patch attached.Thread Previous | Thread Next