From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:23:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/16] more tr portability test script fixes
Message-ID: <20080318222302.GA3450@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20080312213106.GD26286@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King, Wed, Mar 12, 2008 22:31:06 +0100:
> -    tr '\000' '\012' <"$1" | sed -e "$sanitize_diff_raw_z" >.tmp-1
> -    tr '\000' '\012' <"$2" | sed -e "$sanitize_diff_raw_z" >.tmp-2
> +    perl -pe 'y/\000/\012/' <"$1" | sed -e "$sanitize_diff_raw_z" >.tmp-1
> +    perl -pe 'y/\000/\012/' <"$2" | sed -e "$sanitize_diff_raw_z" >.tmp-2

These break in presence of ActiveState Perl on Windows.

I suggest replacing such simple construction with a simplified,
in-tree, version of tr.

Patches follow