tor 2022-08-25 klockan 19:21 +0200 skrev Bruno Haible:
> Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > > In GNU gettext, many tests use "tr -d '\r'" since 2007 already,
> > > and no one
> > > ever has reported a problem with it.
> >
> > But does it fail fatally when it doesn't work? tests/parser.sh in
> > libtasn1
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > In GNU gettext, many tests use "tr -d '\r'" since 2007 already, and no one
> > ever has reported a problem with it.
>
> But does it fail fatally when it doesn't work? tests/parser.sh in
> libtasn1 did
It leads to a test failure, yes, because it removed all 'r's from
Bruno Haible writes:
> Since we are already stating in the generic INSTALL file, since 2008:
>
> On Solaris, don't put '/usr/ucb' early in your 'PATH'. This
> directory contains several dysfunctional programs; working variants of
> these programs are available in '/usr/bin'. So, if
Simon Josefsson wrote:
> This is unrelated, but alas I've not found a more portable way to trim
> CR than this since some tr do not support \r:
>
> if echo solaris | tr -d '\r' | grep solais > /dev/null; then
> cr='\015'
> else
> cr='\r'
> fi
> # normalize output
> LC_ALL=C tr -d "$cr" <
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
I hear that there really do exist systems in actual use
on which tr still does not honor backslash-escapes like \r and \n.
Which platforms, please?
Solaris 10 /usr/ucb/tr. Not likely to be early in PATH, but hey, people
do all kinds of weird things to their
* Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 02:06:17PM CEST:
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
I hear that there really do exist systems in actual use
on which tr still does not honor backslash-escapes like \r and \n.
Which platforms, please?
Solaris 10 /usr/ucb/tr. Not likely to be
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 4/26/2008 6:16 AM:
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| Maybe the Autoconf manual should contain: please don't put /usr/ucb
| nor '.' in $PATH, and if you must, put it as late as possible.
| Dunno, I don't have a strong opinion on all of this.
Yes,
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According to Bruno Haible on 4/26/2008 6:06 AM:
| Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
| I hear that there really do exist systems in actual use
| on which tr still does not honor backslash-escapes like \r and \n.
| Which platforms, please?
| Solaris 10
Eric Blake wrote:
| Maybe the Autoconf manual should contain: please don't put /usr/ucb
| nor '.' in $PATH, and if you must, put it as late as possible.
| Dunno, I don't have a strong opinion on all of this.
Yes, we could add that, but it won't help the fact that configure is run
by people
