Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] bash wildcard expansion

[Mark Brand]

> > My bash just updated to:
> >
> > GNU bash, version 4.2.8(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu)
> >
> > Suddenly there is no expansion anymore on expressions such as:
> >
> >     echo  './src/qt-test'*
> >
> > This causes trouble in our makefiles, such as at line 83 in qt.mk.
> >
> > Could this be anything other than a bash bug?
> It would seem so:
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680545

Yeah, I filed that once I got over my astonishment.

> but it's hard to imagine how such a bug would happen. It would be very
> interesting to track down.

Reminds me of when "chown -R" from a certain distro's coreutils several 
years ago starting traversing  symbolic links by default.

Mark