Re: 'od' portability problem

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> I installed this.  If you happen to know when the problem was fixed we
> can update the version info.

Thanks. The problem exists in MacOS X 10.3.9 (the final version of the 10.3
series) and is fixed already in 10.4.3. Here is a patch.

Bruno


--- doc/autoconf.texi   2006-05-03 14:13:46.000000000 +0200
+++ doc/autoconf.texi.new       2006-05-03 14:14:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -13143,15 +13143,14 @@
 @c ---------------
 @prindex @command{od}
 
-In older versions of Mac OS X, @command{od} does not support the
+In Mac OS X 10.3, @command{od} does not support the
 standard Posix options @option{-A}, @option{-j}, @option{-N}, or
 @option{-t}, or the @acronym{XSI} option @option{-s}.  The only
 supported Posix option is @option{-v}, and the only supported
 @acronym{XSI} options are those in @option{-bcdox}.  The BSD
 @command{hexdump} program can be used instead.
 
-This problem no longer exists in Mac OS X 10.4.6; we don't know when it
-was fixed.
+This problem no longer exists in Mac OS X 10.4.3.
 
 
 @item @command{sed}