Re: Pathnames with two (or more) slashes in Makefile.c

[Sascha Wilde]

Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sascha Wilde skrev:
>> Jan Djärv <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Sascha Wilde skrev:
>> [...]
>>>> --- a/configure.in
>>>> +++ b/configure.in
>>>> @@ -3256,6 +3256,7 @@
>>>>        < Makefile.c > junk1.c
>>>>    sed -e '1,/start of cpp stuff/d'\
>>>>        -e 's,/\*\*/#\(.*\)$,/* \1 */,' \
>>>> +      -e 's,\(#.*\)//\+,\1/,g' \
>>>>        < Makefile.c > junk.c
>>>>    $CPP $undefs -I. -I$srcdir/src $CPPFLAGS junk.c | \
>>>>        sed -e 's/^ /       /' -e '/^#/d' -e '/^[ 
>>>
>>> Why is there a \+?
>>
>> because we not only want to match // but also ///, //// and so
>> forth...
>>
>
> Most sed:s out there don't support \+, it is a GNU extension.  We
> can't use that.  You would have to do ///*.

Ok, so lets use ///*.  :-)

cheers
sascha
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