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commit c242f622dcbd6a9c467fe9213254d7ffac3535f3
Author: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Apr 26 06:32:19 2008 -0600

    Mention Solaris /usr/ucb/tr pitfall.
    
    * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <tr>: Add section.
    Reported by Bruno Haible and Jim Meyering.
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog         |    6 ++++++
 doc/autoconf.texi |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fad30e7..705e71e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2008-04-26  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
+
+       Mention Solaris /usr/ucb/tr pitfall.
+       * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <tr>: Add section.
+       Reported by Bruno Haible and Jim Meyering.
+
 2008-04-24  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
 
        Mention m4sugar's internal quote strings.
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index ff7ffc7..a5e880a 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -15607,6 +15607,28 @@ fails to work on SunOS 4.1.3 when the empty file is on 
an
 @acronym{NFS}-mounted 4.2 volume.
 However, these problems are no longer of practical concern.
 
address@hidden @command{tr}
address@hidden ---------------
address@hidden @command{tr}
address@hidden carriage return, deleting
address@hidden deleting carriage return
+Not all versions of @command{tr} handle all backslash character escapes.
+For example, Solaris 10 @command{/usr/ucb/tr} falls over, even though
+Solaris contains more modern @command{tr} in other locations.
+Therefore, it is more portable to use octal escapes, even though this
+ties the result to @acronym{ASCII}, when using @command{tr} to delete
+newlines or carriage returns.
+
address@hidden
+$ @address@hidden echo moon; echo light; @} | /usr/ucb/tr -d '\n' ; echo}
+moo
+light
+$ @address@hidden echo moon; echo light; @} | /usr/bin/tr -d '\n' ; echo}
+moonlight
+$ @address@hidden echo moon; echo light; @} | /usr/ucb/tr -d '\012' ; echo}
+moonlight
address@hidden example
+
 @end table
 
 


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