[geos-devel] GEOS 3.7.0rc1 release

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 8/20/18 10:44 PM, Regina Obe wrote:
> I asked Sebastian the same thing.  He said it's needed in configure script to escape the [] as I recall.

Yes, see:

 https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/887

"The single blockquotes are stripped by m4(1), hence the need for
additional quotes."

> From: Greg Troxel [mailto:gdt at lexort.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 4:39 PM
> To: Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us>
> Cc: 'GEOS Development List' <geos-devel at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: RE: [geos-devel] GEOS 3.7.0rc1 release
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> I believe there is a POSIX spec for sed. So the right thing in sed use is to depend on only what POSIX requires. Which could be avoiding sed :-)
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> I can see if I can fix the regexp ; what it's doing isn't that complicated.
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> Can you explain the extra []?
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