On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:05:26PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 16:59:36 -0800, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > expr --prefix=/usr/local : -*prefix=\(.*\)
> > expr: syntax error
> 
> > Is expr to blame, or w3m?
> 
> w3m is to blame.  See expr(1) for more details and a workaround which
> is portable to both historic and POSIX expr implementations.
> (Allegedly, the new expr behavior is already required of all
> UNIX-branded systems, so the w3m authors should be well familiar with
> it.  It is an old POSIX.2 requirement.)

OK.  Looking at the latest build logs there are only about 13/3500
ports which are broken with this, so it's not too bad.

Kris

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