Re: gmake 3.80 vs 3,81

[Paul D. Smith]

On Wednesday, 18 October, Bhaskar G (address@hidden) wrote:

> The sed script that I use with gmake 3.80 works fine but not with 3.81. I 
> get the following errors.
> 
> I have a multipe -e sed operations on the command line. 
> 
> sed: -e expression #1, char 30: Unknown option to `s'
> sed: -e expression #4, char 66: Unknown option to `s'
> 
> I am not sure if this is something to do with the gmake version.

Since you're not showing the actual command as written in the makefile
there's not much we can say.  However, I expect this is related to the
change in backslash handling made in 3.81.  See the NEWS file.

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