Re: \{n\} are not recognized as repetition counter in regular expressions.

2025-05-22 Thread Eric Blake
On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 12:30:37PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 2025-05-22 10:42, Eric Blake wrote: > > BSD has tried hard to make their m4 be a drop-in replacement > > enough that autoconf will use it instead of mandating GNU m4 > > Is this a real problem, though? I just now tried running Autoc

Re: \{n\} are not recognized as repetition counter in regular expressions.

2025-05-22 Thread Paul Eggert
On 2025-05-22 10:42, Eric Blake wrote: BSD has tried hard to make their m4 be a drop-in replacement enough that autoconf will use it instead of mandating GNU m4 Is this a real problem, though? I just now tried running Autoconf's 'configure' on FreeBSD 15, and FreeBSD 15's /usr/bin/m4 quickly f

Re: \{n\} are not recognized as repetition counter in regular expressions.

2025-05-22 Thread Eric Blake
On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 01:37:10PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 12:46:11PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote: > > And relying on a configure-time test of what m4 supports on the > > packager's machine is not necessarily going to work when autoconf is > > run on a developer's machine wit