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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:18:11 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: New expr(1) breaks ports
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On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:05:26PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:59:36 -0800, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>=
 said:
>=20
> > expr --prefix=3D/usr/local : -*prefix=3D\(.*\)
> > expr: syntax error
>=20
> > Is expr to blame, or w3m?
>=20
> w3m is to blame.  See expr(1) for more details and a workaround which
> is portable to both historic and POSIX expr implementations.
> (Allegedly, the new expr behavior is already required of all
> UNIX-branded systems, so the w3m authors should be well familiar with
> it.  It is an old POSIX.2 requirement.)

OK.  Looking at the latest build logs there are only about 13/3500
ports which are broken with this, so it's not too bad.

Kris
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