* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of usual tools): Display a table showing where the various syntaxes for word boundaries are supported. --- doc/autoconf.texi | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi index 4be1f70..2e4b7ba 100644 --- a/doc/autoconf.texi +++ b/doc/autoconf.texi @@ -19666,6 +19666,18 @@ $ @kbd{echo abc | busybox sed '/a\(b\)c/ s/a\(b\)c/\1/'} b @end example +Portable scripts should be aware of the inconsistencies and +options for handling word boundaries. + +@example + \< \b [[:<:]] +Solaris 10 yes no no +Solaris XPG4 yes no error +NetBSD 5.1 no no yes +FreeBSD 9.1 no no yes +GNU yes yes error +busybox yes yes error +@end example @item @command{sed} (@samp{t}) @c --------------------------- -- 2.5.5