Re: 2.53b on BeOS, 7 failures

[Brian Francis]

Wow!  You nailed it dead-on.  The version of expr that was installed
with BeOS PPC R5 is from GNU sh-utils 2.0.  This is the broken version.
I replaced it with v1.16 from the GeekGadets project.  At least the
first test seems to function properly.  I will re-run the autoconf
testsuite to see if (at least some) problems go away.

Thank you for your help,
Brian

> > 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.