Re: UNICOS changes

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Paul Eggert wrote on Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:48:51AM CET:
> Thanks.  There being no reply by the Fortran experts, I installed
> those code changes.  I reworded the doc a bit, resulting in the
> following patch instead.

Thank you.

Small nitpick:  You installed the lib/autoconf/fortran.m4 change but did
not mention it in the ChangeLog.  Had me confused for a while whether
you had dropped the patch or not.

Regards,
Ralf

> --- autoconf.texi     1 Feb 2005 20:43:42 -0000       1.871
> +++ autoconf.texi     2 Feb 2005 23:47:34 -0000       1.872
> @@ -11855,6 +11855,12 @@ Patterns should not include the separato
>  of a character class.  In conformance with Posix, the Cray
>  @command{sed} will reject @samp{s/[^/]*$//}: use @samp{s,[^/]*$,,}.
>  
> +Avoid empty patterns within parentheses (i.e., @samp{\(\)}).  Posix is
> +silent on whether they are allowed, and Unicos 9 @command{sed} rejects
> +them.
> +
> +Unicos 9 @command{sed} loops endlessly on patterns like @samp{.*\n.*}.
> +
>  Sed scripts should not use branch labels longer than 8 characters and
>  should not contain comments.
>  
> 
>