On December 20, 2003 05:08 pm, David Laight wrote:
Just tell the Solaris user to put /usr/xpg4/bin on $PATH before /usr/bin. Then 'sh' will be 'ksh' and posix compliant...
This would be just us trying to be nasty. There absolutely _zero_ reason to not use expr in this case. And don't tell me the performance story, it's just BS in this case (in fact, I'll bet you can't measure _any_ significant difference between the build times of winetests with and without 'expr').