Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] savannah email quoting bug? [Re: [bug #23647] 'id' not being built on OSX platforms

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:43:14AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> I wrote:
> > re http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23647
> ...
> > Thanks for the report, but I have a hard time taking seriously any attempt 
> > to
> > do development on case-insensitive file systems.
> >
> > Perhaps a better way to work around it is simply to suggest (via README) to
> > run "perl -pi -e 's/bIDb/IDD/' src/Makefile" after running configure.
> 
> FYI, the above line was mangled between the web UI (where it's correct)
> and email, where each "\b" was converted to a "b":
> 
>   run "perl -pi -e 's/\bID\b/IDD/' src/Makefile" after running configure.

Thanks, I'll try to have a look.
(there's been a report of truncating '\0's too).

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Sylvain