Re: [RFA] more sed fixes for Makefile.in

["Theodore A. Roth" <troth@openavr.org>]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Felix Lee wrote:

> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>:
> > I think you may be right about the -e -e thing, but autoconf 2.5x and
> > 2.13 both use ; instead.
>
> yeah.
>
> looks like the right way these days is
>     sed -e $$t
> no quotes around the $$t, because configure does the quoting (and
> uses 's,x,x,' for null transformation).
>
> I just looked, there are lots of old configures in the tree that
> don't do that quoting, but I think they're in directories that
> don't use program_transform_name, so it might not matter.
>
> also, sim/common/configure.in has a
>       t='\$(program_transform_name)'; echo gcc | sed -e 's/x/x/' \$\$t; \
> that needs to be fixed

Ok, sounds like I'll have to withdraw my patch.

Should probably also revert my patch from 2003-07-11 at some point
when gdb isn't using autocon-2.13 anymore.

Ted Roth