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 noticed it was when libtool started to complain
when compiling jade. Libtool does things like:

expr -L/export/ports/textproc/jade/work/jade-1.2.1/lib/.libs : -l\(.*\)
expr -lsp : -l\(.*\)
expr -lm : -l\(.*\)
expr -lgrove : -l\(.*\)

On -current this now have to be:

expr -- -L/export/ports/textproc/jade/work/jade-1.2.1/lib/.libs : -l\(.*\)
expr -- -lsp : -l\(.*\)
expr -- -lm : -l\(.*\)
expr -- -lgrove : -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 from the rest of the world. :-(((

Yes, I did read the commit message, but I still think the behaviour
of the new expr(1) is wrong.

John
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