Re: configure.ac problem

[Archie Cobbs]

Michael Koch wrote:
> > The Classpath configure.ac script contains some non-portable shell
> > code:
> >
> >   if expr match ${target_cpu} .*86 > /dev/null; then target_cpu=x86;
> > fi
> >
> > The "expr match" syntax is not portable, e.g. to FreeBSD 4.x.
> > The patch below fixes this.
> >
> > Permission to commit?
> 
> Can we please make sure we need this stuff at all with latest autoconf ? 
> I'm not really sure about it. Why was this hack needed ? I dont see any 
> documentation about this.

Getting rid of it is fine with me. However I'm the wrong person to ask why
it's there, so I'll wait until further instructoins from someone else..

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs      *        CTO, Awarix        *      http://www.awarix.com