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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | build-aux/mktempd | 4 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2008-05-14 Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org> + + use "echo STR|wc -c" rather than unportable "expr length STR" + * build-aux/mktempd (mktempd): Vendor-supplied expr from at least + OpenBSD 4.3 and Solaris 10 do not honor expr's "length" function. + 2008-05-14 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> use dd ifs=$n count=1 ... rather than less-portable head -c$n diff --git a/build-aux/mktempd b/build-aux/mktempd index 5bee3f0c76..2bb424f69e 100755 --- a/build-aux/mktempd +++ b/build-aux/mktempd @@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ mktempd() base_template=`echo "$template"|sed 's/XX*$//'` # Calculate how many X's we've just removed. - nx=`expr length "$template" - length "$base_template"` + template_length=`echo "$template" | wc -c` + nx=`echo "$base_template" | wc -c` + nx=`expr $template_length - $nx` err= i=1 |