Re: boost macros use non-portable tac

[Peter Johansson]

On 09/27/2012 07:26 AM, Peter Simons wrote:

Hi Peter,

 > IIUC, 'tac' was introduced to reverse the order of the output from
 > 'ls', and I'm thinking that just replacing 'ls' with 'ls -r' would
 > suffice, or am I missing something?

well, if '-r' is a sufficiently well supported option to 'ls', then it
sure is an alternative to 'tac'. Would you like to prepare a patch to
make that change?

According to Autoconf manual

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Limitations-of-Usual-Tools

"portable options are -acdilrtu".

I'm happy to prepare a patch. Give me a few days or so.


Cheers,
Peter