Re: [boost] 'configure' problem on Solaris 9 - patch enclosed

From: Jonathan Wakely (cow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-13 04:39:48

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:10:44AM +0000, Timo Geusch wrote:

> Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:49:46PM +0000, Timo Geusch wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>The attached patch to boost_1_32_0/libs/config/tools/configure.in fixes
> >>that problem for the price of dumbing down the tr invocation.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >-   namespace=`echo $macroname | tr [[:upper:]] [[:lower:]]`
> >+   namespace=`echo $macroname | tr [[A-Z]] [[a-z]]`
> >
> >should that be this instead?
> >+   namespace=`echo $macroname | tr [A-Z] [a-z]`
> > 
> >
> This is what the code generated by autoconf should look like - the 
> original line above reads as
> namespace=`echo $macroname | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]`
> in the configure script that is enclosed with 1.32.0 so I - not being 
> anywhere near an autoconf expert - assumed that the additional [] get 
> stripped out. Can someone please either check or confirm this?

OK, I'm wrong then, sorry.

SysV tr required "[a-z]" for a range, whereas POSIX tr only needs "a-z"
but will still work with the brackets, so as long as the final output is
"[a-z]" then that should work everywhere.

I'll get back to work,

jon

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