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Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0
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Daniel Jacobowitz |
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Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0 |
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Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:31:26 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.1i |
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:29:29AM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > $ a='a\b'
> > > $ expr "X$a" : 'X\(.*\)'
> > > a\b
> >
> > That's a neat trick, I didn't know it. Is this in the shell
> > portability guide?
>
> No, because some older version of expr can't handle arguments larger
> than 120 bytes (this is documented).
>
> > Note that all --enable, --with, and A=B options are
> > passed through echo and sed, at least as of the latest version I have
> > installed.
>
> Yes; autoconf doesn't support \ in file names.
Did you see the separate bit of my message, about _AC_INIT_PREPARE?
That means that autoconf doesn't support \ in any arguments whatsoever
when using subconfigures.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0, Jim Meyering, 2004/02/11
- Shell-parsing test program (was Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0), Eric Siegerman, 2004/02/11
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0, Paul Eggert, 2004/02/11
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable5.2.0, Bruce Korb, 2004/02/11
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0, Lars Hecking, 2004/02/11
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2004/02/12
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0, Paul Eggert, 2004/02/12
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2004/02/12
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0, Paul Eggert, 2004/02/12
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0,
Daniel Jacobowitz <=
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0, Paul Eggert, 2004/02/17
- Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0, Jeff Sheinberg, 2004/02/14
Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0, Thomas Dickey, 2004/02/11