Subject: bug#15769: building on OpenBSD fails because of a shell pattern problem

From: Han Boetes <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:11:18 +0100

Glenn Morris wrote:
> Argh, I meant to say
> 
>    *[[!\ -~]]*) AC_MSG_ERROR ...
> 
> Ie, just swap "^" for "!".

I just got a portability hint from Thorsten Glaser:

  "mirabilos| in shell moet je ! ipv ^ gebruiken voor inverted match"

So yes indeed, we have to use ! and not ^ in the shell. :-)

# Han