Hi,
I see the new new behaviour of expr(1) requires you to add '--' if your
commandline arguments might start with a '-'. This does break things
a little because our old expr(1) does not understand a '--' in the
beginning and the new one don't work right without it. :-(((
The place where I notic
John Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I see the new new behaviour of expr(1) requires you to add '--' if your
> commandline arguments might start with a '-'. This does break things
> a little because our old expr(1) does not understand a '--' in the
> beginning and the new one don't work right wi
> > I see the new new behaviour of expr(1) requires you to add '--' if your
> > commandline arguments might start with a '-'. This does break things
> > a little because our old expr(1) does not understand a '--' in the
> > beginning and the new one don't work right without it. :-(((
>
> I'm almo
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:58:22PM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see the new new behaviour of expr(1) requires you to add '--' if your
> commandline arguments might start with a '-'. This does break things
> a little because our old expr(1) does not understand a '--' in the
> beginning and t
John Hay wrote:
> > > I see the new new behaviour of expr(1) requires you to add '--' if your
> > > commandline arguments might start with a '-'. This does break things
> > > a little because our old expr(1) does not understand a '--' in the
> > > beginning and the new one don't work right without
< said:
>> > expr -lgrove : -l\(.*\)
>> > expr -- -L/export/ports/textproc/jade/work/jade-1.2.1/lib/.libs : -l\(.*\)
>> > If we are going to leave this behaviour, we will have to teach libtool
>> > how to call expr(1) differently on -stable and -current and it looks
>> > like yet again different
>
> I have just committed code to expr which will cause it to behave more
> like the old expr did in the presence of an EXPR_COMPAT environment
> variable. Ports can then be set up to build with this variable
> defined until the libtool maintainers fix up their act.
Thanks, with this and some p