From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 21 15:35:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-18.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D743137B417; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5A81166C8C; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:35:03 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: John Hay Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new expr(1) behaviour breaks libtool Message-ID: <20020421153503.B21894@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200204211558.g3LFwM414296@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200204211558.g3LFwM414296@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>; from jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:58:22PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:58:22PM +0200, John Hay wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I see the new new behaviour of expr(1) requires you to add '--' if your > commandline arguments might start with a '-'. This does break things > a little because our old expr(1) does not understand a '--' in the > beginning and the new one don't work right without it. :-((( I have a patch for this, but unfortunately it's on a HD I can't access right now. I need to test it on the cluster soon and commit it. Kris --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8wz6WWry0BWjoQKURAvCmAKDLXdgpLMBaHFT3hQmO8nLFIavfhQCggq0g ut/0vwlx6gQSzjEmth4HF3w= =5Kvv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dTy3Mrz/UPE2dbVg-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message