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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Felix Lee <felix.1@canids.net>
Cc: "Theodore A. Roth" <troth@openavr.org>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] more sed fixes for Makefile.in
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031007235054.GA14654@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031007233807.37B37158F81@kanga.canids.net>

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:38:07PM -0700, Felix Lee wrote:
> you should make sure the configure files create a
> program_transform_name that looks like "sedcmd;sedcmd" rather
> than "-e sedcmd -e sedcmd".  I think this was an autoconf version
> dependency.  I'm kind of skeptical program_transform_name works
> right.  some time ago I was trying to pass my own
> program-transform-name arg to configure, I forget why exactly,
> but I ran into all sorts of problems and eventually just gave up
> and did something else.

There were quoting problems in the toplevel.  I fixed them not long
ago.  There are more, caused by bugs in autoconf, so passing
program-transform-names which contain backslashes doesn't always work
right.

I think you may be right about the -e -e thing, but autoconf 2.5x and
2.13 both use ; instead.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-07 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-07 22:30 Theodore A. Roth
2003-10-07 22:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-07 23:38 ` Felix Lee
2003-10-07 23:50   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-10-08  0:07     ` Felix Lee
2003-10-08  0:15       ` Theodore A. Roth

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