configure doesn't work on FreeBSD, because of bashism in PEERID_PREFIX.

[mezz]

The configure does not work on FreeBSD, because of bashism in PEERID_PREFIX looks like this:

if test "x${PEERID_PREFIX: -2:1}" = "xZ"; then
  AC_DEFINE(TR_UNSTABLE, 1, [Define to 1 if this is an unstable version of Transmission])
  TR_UNSTABLE=yes
fi

The ': -2:1' part is what caused not work on FreeBSD. I won't be surpised if we install bash and it will working. The bash does not include in all of *BSD. The error looks like this:

(cached) (cached) checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
./configure: ${PEERID_PREFIX: ...}: Bad substitution

I am not sure what we are supposed to replace it to... Maybe using awk?

# echo "-TR133Z-" | awk '{print substr($0, 7, length-7)}'
Z

or grep?

if grep -Eq 'Z' ${PEERID_PREFIX} 2>/dev/null; then
  AC_DEFINE(TR_UNSTABLE, 1, [Define to 1 if this is an unstable version of Transmission])
  TR_UNSTABLE=yes

fi

Or some different method...

[charles]

Probably simplest to use m4, since that's guaranteed to be everywhere autoconf is.

Please give r7076 a spin and see if it works for you

[mezz]

Cool, something new to me and it's even better. :-) Fixed, thanks!