Re: problems with regular expressions on OpenBSD/sparc

[David Lebel <lebel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Bart Schaefer (schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):
> This usually means something's wrong with the way `struct dirent' or the
> equivalent is being interpreted when zsh is reading file names from a
> directory.  I've seen this happen on Solaris because both SysV and BSD
> style directory routines are available and you can get the wrong one
> depending on which C compiler is first in your $PATH, but I'm surprised
> it's happened on OpenBSD.
> 
> What does
> 
>     grep DIR config.h
> 
> show you?

I should also point out that this too doesn't work:

VAR=foobar

case $VAR in
  foo*)
    echo "got foo'ed"
    ;;
esac

on i386 gives:

got foo'ed

whereas on sparc, it gives nothing.

Ciao,
  ...David
 
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