Hello Bruno, my two cents:
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 10:25:42PM CEST: > > On a Solaris 10 machine, I happened to not have /usr/xpg4/bin in front of > /usr/bin in my PATH. Consequence: The 'tr' program does not recognize > the POSIX (and BSD) syntax for character ranges. You can work around it by using the System V way of writing ranges: tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' which will work with both types of tr programs for this range. > The autoconf doc should mention this, IMO. Posix already documents this in more detail than we do. I don't think we should repeat each oddity that Posix already documents (but in this particular case, I don't care much either way, as long as we mention the workaround above). > Here's a proposed patch. While at it, let's also > mention that /usr/bin/tr still has the '\0' bug. (I verified it.) Fine with me. Thanks, Ralf > 2009-08-16 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> > > * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Mention that Solaris > /usr/bin/tr does not support ranges, nor the '\0' octal escape.
