Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These days I stumbled across a portability pitfall with POSIX 'od', while > writing an autoconf macro. How about documenting it in autoconf?
OK, thanks, but the latest Mac OS X man page says the problem no longer exists: <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/od.1.html> I installed this. If you happen to know when the problem was fixed we can update the version info. 2006-05-02 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools): Add a paragraph about 'od'. --- doc/autoconf.texi 2 May 2006 03:20:26 -0000 1.1009 +++ doc/autoconf.texi 3 May 2006 00:30:24 -0000 1.1010 @@ -13138,6 +13138,22 @@ exec > foo rm -f foo @end example + [EMAIL PROTECTED] @command{od} [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] @command{od} + +In older versions of Mac OS X, @command{od} does not support the +standard Posix options @option{-A}, @option{-j}, @option{-N}, or [EMAIL PROTECTED], or the @acronym{XSI} option @option{-s}. The only +supported Posix option is @code{-v}, and the only supported [EMAIL PROTECTED] options are those in @option{-bcdox}. The BSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. + + @item @command{sed} @c ---------------- @prindex @command{sed}
