Re: Autoconf Transforms

2008-10-15 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >>> I guess the manual is trying to tell me that implicitly by discussing >>> the m4 processor parsing rules, but I haven't yet found an explicit >>> warning to that effect about use of shell commands (except the >>> warning

Re: Autoconf Transforms

2008-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 10/15/2008 12:43 PM: >> e.g., regex classes, where 's/[^0-9]//' becomes 's/^0-9//' unless one >> doubles the square braces like so 's/[[^0-9]]//' in which case one of >> each pair is stripped away to get the desired form

Re: Autoconf Transforms

2008-10-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Tom, * Tom Browder wrote on Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:24:58PM CEST: > I am trying to use some raw shell commands in my 'configure.ac' file > and find that some constructs are not permitted without some care, > e.g., regex classes, where 's/[^0-9]//' becomes 's/^0-9//' unless one > doubles the squ