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Re: r150960 changed ltmain.sh and broke the build
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Eric Blake |
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Re: r150960 changed ltmain.sh and broke the build |
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Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:36:12 -0600 |
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/26/2009 12:22 PM:
>
> How about
>
> Patterns should not include the separator (unless escaped), even
> as part of a character class. In conformance with Posix, the Cray
> `sed' rejects `s/[^/]*$//': use `s,[^/]*$,,'. Even escaped,
I'd rather recommend 's|[^/]*$||' instead, consistent with the rest of our
recommendations to prefer | over non-shell-metacharacters.
> patterns should not include separators that are also used as
> metacharacters. For example, GNU sed 3.02 rejects `s,x\{1\,\},,',
s/as metacharacters/as sed metacharacters/
> and is used on MinGW.
I guess you were trying to point out that GNU sed 3.02 is what is
currently in use on MinGW? That wording came across a bit awkwardly; how
about:
For example, MinGW ships with GNU sed 3.02, which rejects `s,x\{1\,\},,'.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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