bad substitution

[M.W. Chang]

> The following line in harbour.spec (RPM) produced a "bad substitution"
> error. how should I fix it?
> C_USR=${C_USR//-DHB_FM_STATISTICS_OFF/-DHB_PARANOID_MEM_CHECK}

ok. someone from the harbour listtold me that it's a bash version problem.

The bash 1.14 on COL 3.1 is possibly too old to handle it.
The latest version is 2.05b with patches according to linuxfromscratch.

I wonder whether anyyone here had encountered similar problem before.


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