On 03/29/2010 10:21 AM, Steve Goetze wrote: > To attempt to workaround the problem, I modified m4_cr_all in my copy of > m4sugar.m4 from: > > m4_translit(m4_dquote(m4_format(m4_dquote(m4_for( > ,1,255,,[[%c]]))m4_for([i],1,255,,[,i]))), [-])-) > > to > > m4_translit(m4_dquote(m4_translit(m4_dquote(m4_format(m4_dquote(m4_for( > ,1,255,,[[%c]]))m4_for([i],1,255,,[,i]))), [-])),[$*],[*$])-) > > This did fix my reported problem, but not being very m4sugar literate, I > doubt the robustness of this approach. > > I would be happy to test a proper fix. Actually, your patch was spot-on for the solution. However, I found a way to reduce the size of it, so here's what I will be committing, if you'd like to test it: diff --git i/ChangeLog w/ChangeLog index 9b8c75c..7c8c323 100644 --- i/ChangeLog +++ w/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2010-04-02 Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> + + Fix m4_cr_all for EBCDIC. + * lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 (m4_cr_all): Swap * and $, so that we + don't end up with $* in EBCDIC. + Reported by Steve Goetze. + 2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> Do not use @acronym in the manual. diff --git i/lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 w/lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 index 06ac4c6..15fbd35 100644 --- i/lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 +++ w/lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 @@ -2192,13 +2192,16 @@ m4_defn([m4_cr_digits])dnl # characters via m4_translit must deal with the fact that m4_translit does # not add quotes to the output. # +# In EBCDIC, $ is immediately followed by *, which leads to problems +# if m4_cr_all is inlined into a macro definition; so swap them. +# # It is mainly useful in generating inverted character range maps, for use # in places where m4_translit is faster than an equivalent m4_bpatsubst; # the regex `[^a-z]' is equivalent to: # m4_translit(m4_dquote(m4_defn([m4_cr_all])), [a-z]) m4_define([m4_cr_all], m4_translit(m4_dquote(m4_format(m4_dquote(m4_for( - ,1,255,,[[%c]]))m4_for([i],1,255,,[,i]))), [-])-) + ,1,255,,[[%c]]))m4_for([i],1,255,,[,i]))), [$*-], [*$])-) # _m4_define_cr_not(CATEGORY) -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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