[svn-r12358] Purpose:

Bug fix.

Description:
The ${TR}, though avoid the error, is inconvenient.  It is needed
because configure.in use the char range in the style of 'a-z'.
The other style of '[a-z]' is more commonly accepted by all tr
but autoconf tends to strip away [], making the syntax rather
clumsy.

Solution:
Learned from autoconf that it avoids the use of character range
by just spell all the letters out.  Changed our tr commands to
use those variables defined by autoconf.  Also removed the
definition of ${TR} since it will cause inconsistancy when
autoconf also use plain 'tr' in its generated code.

The Makefile.in are changed because the elimination of ${TR} from
configure triggered its removal from all Makefil.in.  That is okay
because ${TR} is not used at all in Makefile.

Platforms tested:
h5committested. (sol failed to connected). also tested in shanti
using both /usr/ucb/tr and /bin/tr (the bad one before.)

Misc. update:
Updated both INSTALL and RELEASE files.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 54800fb..5b77514 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -112,25 +112,16 @@ set >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
 AC_MSG_RESULT([done])
 
 dnl ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-dnl Some platforms have broken tr, basename, and/or xargs programs. Check
+dnl Some platforms have broken basename, and/or xargs programs. Check
 dnl that it actually does what it's supposed to do. Catch this early
-dnl since configure relies upon tr heavily and there's no use continuing
+dnl since configure relies upon them heavily and there's no use continuing
 dnl if it's broken.
 dnl
 
-dnl If the TR variable is set, use it as tr.
-AC_SUBST([TR])
-if test "X${TR}" = "X"; then
-  TR=tr
-fi
-
-AC_MSG_CHECKING([if tr works])
-TR_TEST="`echo Test | ${TR} 'a-z,' 'A-Z '`"
-if test "X${TR_TEST}" != "XTEST"; then
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([tr program ${TR} doesn't work])
-else
-  AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
-fi
+dnl Avoid depending upon Character Ranges.
+dnl These are defined by autoconf.
+dnl as_cr_letters='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
+dnl as_cr_LETTERS='ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
 
 AC_MSG_CHECKING([if basename works])
 BASENAME_TEST="`basename /foo/bar/baz/qux/basename_works`"
@@ -1781,7 +1772,7 @@ case "X-$DEBUG_PKG" in
 esac
 
 if test -n "$DEBUG_PKG"; then
-  for pkg in `echo $DEBUG_PKG | ${TR} 'a-z,' 'A-Z '`; do
+  for pkg in `echo $DEBUG_PKG | tr ${as_cr_letters}',' ${as_cr_LETTERS}' '`; do
     H5_CPPFLAGS="$H5_CPPFLAGS -DH5${pkg}_DEBUG"
   done
 fi
@@ -1962,7 +1953,7 @@ case "$CC_BASENAME" in
     if (echo $cmd | grep / >/dev/null); then
       path="`echo $cmd | sed 's/\(.*\)\/.*$/\1/'`"
     else
-      for path in `echo $PATH | ${TR} : ' '`; do
+      for path in `echo $PATH | tr : ' '`; do
         if test -x $path/$cmd; then
           break
         fi
@@ -1993,7 +1984,7 @@ case "$CC_BASENAME" in
     if (echo $cmd | grep / >/dev/null); then
       path="`echo $cmd | sed 's/\(.*\)\/.*$/\1/'`"
     else
-      for path in `echo $PATH | ${TR} : ' '`; do
+      for path in `echo $PATH | tr : ' '`; do
         if test -x $path/$cmd; then
           break
         fi
@@ -2051,7 +2042,7 @@ if test "X$HDF_FORTRAN" = "Xyes"; then
       if (echo $cmd |grep / >/dev/null); then
         path="`echo $cmd |sed 's/\(.*\)\/.*$/\1/'`"
       else
-        for path in `echo $PATH |tr : ' '`; do
+        for path in `echo $PATH | tr : ' '`; do
           if test -x $path/$cmd; then
             break;
           fi
@@ -2425,7 +2416,7 @@ case "X-$FILTERS" in
 esac
 
 if test -n "$FILTERS"; then
-  for filter in `echo $FILTERS | ${TR} 'a-z,' 'A-Z '`; do
+  for filter in `echo $FILTERS | tr ${as_cr_letters}',' ${as_cr_LETTERS}' '`; do
     dnl ------------------------------------------------------------------
     dnl Have to use separate 'if' construct for each filter, so that
     dnl autoheader can detect the AC_DEFINE for each one...