Re: little anoyance with configure

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>]

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:44:46PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>   
> > ohp(at)pyrenet(dot)fr writes:
> >     
> > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > >       
> > > > Second thought ... it's interpreting the '-' as an option?  Does this
> > > > work:
> > > > ... | tr 'a_b' 'a-b'
> > > >         
> > > YES!
> > >       
> > Patch applied per Peter's suggestion.
> >     
>
> Doesn't that do something entirely different? The original purpose was
> to convert underscores to hyphens, but it's doing something else
> entirely.
>
> $ echo test_string | tr 'a_b' 'a-b'
> testbstring
>
> On my system I need to at least escape the hyphen again:
>
> $ echo test_string | tr 'a_b' 'a\-b'
> test-string
>
> Character classes didn't do it for me: [_] -> [-]
>
> Have a nice day,
>   


Would not this be a simple solution? And configure is already littered 
with uses of sed.

 sed 's/_/-/g'


cheers

andrew