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Re: javacomp: portability fix
From: |
Eric Blake |
Subject: |
Re: javacomp: portability fix |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:08:13 +0000 (UTC) |
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Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
> Oh, I finally see it now. There are only 84 bytes being translated; pre-
patch,
> the invocation was "tr [85] [84]", post-patch it is "tr [84] [84]". So the
> problem was not with '-' (although that can potentially be problematic in its
> own right), but in the mismatch in charset sizes. And no, I don't see that
in
> the autoconf manual (yet).
POSIX does mention that particular pitfall (but it doesn't hurt to remind us of
it in autoconf, to help us avoid tripping over it again).
> I'll see what I can whip up.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/6966
--
Eric Blake