Re: [PATCH] Use expr where possible

[Peter O'Gorman]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> "Peter O'Gorman" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > To reply to myself, Bill Fenner just mentioned on irc that this will
> > give a bad result for "i686-pc-linux-gnu" he instead suggests using
> > [.-.] as in:
>
>
> That won't work on older hosts; it will match ".".
>
> I've worked around this by avoiding expr entirely here (as well as
> echo | sed).  Here's what I installed into Autoconf CVS:

This seems to be working.

Thanks,
Peter
--
Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com