Re: 2.53b on BeOS, 7 failures

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Brian Francis <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 18:53:11 -0700 (-0700)
> 
> Here's my output.  The only one that differs is the first one.
> 
> 506 /boot/home/develop/autoconf-2.53b>expr 'a' : '\([^a]\)'
> a

In that case, I think we should leave autoconf alone.  Autoconf will
use dirname in preference to expr, if dirname works.

Your expr is clearly buggy, since it thinks that the pattern /[^a]/
matches the string "a".  Is BeOS still being maintained?  If so,
please send the maintainers a bug report; their regular expression
matcher is broken.