Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes: > Oh, I finally see it now. There are only 84 bytes being translated; pre- patch, > the invocation was "tr [85] [84]", post-patch it is "tr [84] [84]". So the > problem was not with '-' (although that can potentially be problematic in its > own right), but in the mismatch in charset sizes. And no, I don't see that in > the autoconf manual (yet).
POSIX does mention that particular pitfall (but it doesn't hurt to remind us of it in autoconf, to help us avoid tripping over it again). > I'll see what I can whip up. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches/6966 -- Eric Blake
