Re: non portable sed scripts

[Tim Rice]

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Paul Eggert wrote:

> I installed this patch, which works around this particular problem by
> not using shell expansion at all in the here-documents used to create
> defines.sed.  However, other instances of this problem lurk in
> AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), _AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_DEFINE_Q, AC_LANG_CONFTEST,
> _AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE, _AC_OUTPUT_FILE, and
> _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS, with the last 3 being the most worrisome.
> 
> Perhaps Tim could check whether this patch fixes his problem?
> If not, other patches are probably also needed.

I built autoconf from CVS pulled May 24 15:30 US/Pacific, ran
autoconf in the coreutils source tree, ran configure on my 7.1.1 box.
This time it worked fine.

Good work.

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