2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 145606f8c48..b7715c4e95a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2001-01-27  Michael Sokolov  <msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG>,  Alexandre Oliva  <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
+
+	* ltconfig: Shell portability fix for the tagname validity check.
+
 2001-01-27  Alexandre Oliva  <aoliva@redhat.com>
 
 	* ltcf-c.sh (ld_shlibs) [aix5*]: Disable on unknown CPU types.
diff --git a/ltconfig b/ltconfig
index 168923f5ddf..889cf44af9c 100755
--- a/ltconfig
+++ b/ltconfig
@@ -422,8 +422,10 @@ fi
 
 if test -n "$tagname"; then
   # Check whether tagname contains only valid characters
-  case "$tagname" in
-  *[!-_A-Za-z0-9,/]*)
+  case `$echo "X$tagname" |
+        $Xsed -e 's/[-_ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890,/]//g'` in
+  "") ;;
+  *)
     echo "$progname: invalid tag name: $tagname" 1>&2
     exit 1
     ;;