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 Message-ID: <20020324171811.B74719@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200203250105.g2P15Qf44040@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:05:26PM -0500 References: <20020324165936.A74698@xor.obsecurity.org> <200203250105.g2P15Qf44040@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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--WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd 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 iD8DBQE8nnrTWry0BWjoQKURAghFAJwJnEYa/fymDKENijMUGrKODo5i5wCg+bSj GZ8Cm0iRDcVisYiGw1Jqybk= =Xcz+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WYTEVAkct0FjGQmd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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