>This patch got made to Configure in pl26:
>- if expr "$ans" : '0$\|-?[1-9][0-9]*$' > /dev/null; then
>+ if expr "$ans" : '0$\|-\?[1-9][0-9]*$' > /dev/null; then
>That's in the int function. There's a similar \ added before a + in the hex
>function. This breaks configure. Every time you give an answer to an int
>question (eg max no of tagged queue commands), it gives you the help.
>This means that make oldconfig goes into an infinite loop.
The solution is to upgrade your sh-utils, which contains a more POSIXly
correct version of expr. This should probably be added to the changes
document.
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