In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Juergen Lock wrote: >> At least FreeBSD's expr(1) doesnt understand the syntax now used in >> configure: >> >> Index: qemu/configure >> @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ >> fi >> >> for opt do >> - optarg=`expr "$opt" : '[^=]*=\(.*\)'` >> + optarg=`echo "$opt" |sed 's/^[^=]*=//'` >> case "$opt" in >> --help|-h) show_help=yes >> ;; > >The GNU Autoconf manual, and its code, recommends something like this >(note the "x" prefix): > > optarg=`expr "x$opt" : 'x[^=]*=\(.*\)'` > >Your echo version suffers from non-portable results when opt matches "-n*", >"-e*", "-E*", or something with a backslash in.
Oh, indeed. Better version: Index: qemu/configure @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ fi for opt do - optarg=`expr "$opt" : '[^=]*=\(.*\)'` + optarg=`echo "x$opt" |sed 's/^[^=]*=//'` case "$opt" in --help|-h) show_help=yes ;; _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
