On Aug 1, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> Geoff Keating has just reported that Solaris'
Alexandre> /usr/ucb/expr, as well as SunOS's /usr/bin/expr, will fail
Alexandre> if the first string is longer than 128 bytes. We should
Alexandre> probably re-think our use of expr in _AC_SHELL_DIRNAME :-(
> I don't observe this:
Actually, what Geoff said was that the problem showed up when the
*matched* string was longer than 128 bytes. So move the `*' into the
parentheses.
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