Re: gnulib-tool (or something else?) misbehaving...

[Bruno Haible]

Jim Meyering wrote:
>   Updating ./gnulib/lib/.gitignore (backup in ./gnulib/lib/.gitignore~)
>   sed: file /u/jt503.zc6WFk/glnfwWQ6/sed-ignore-removed line 2: extra 
> characters after command
>   Creating ./gnulib/m4/.gitignore
>   Updating ./gnulib/tests/.cvsignore (backup in ./gnulib/tests/.cvsignore~)
>   Updating ./gnulib/tests/.gitignore (backup in ./gnulib/tests/.gitignore~)
>   sed: can't find label for jump to `est-lstat.c/d'
>   Finished.

This is part of a 2-step process, where a list of files is transformed by sed
into a file 'sed-ignore-removed', which then itself is again applied as a sed
script to other input. Can you make a backup copy of sed-ignore-removed
after it has been created? Add 1 line to gnulib-tool:
   { echo '===='; cat "$tmp"/sed-ignore-removed; } >> /tmp/backup-copy
It should then be clear whether the problem is that the file list contains
unexpected characters, or the first 'sed' invocation went wrong, or the second
'sed' invocation went wrong.

Bruno