From: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
To: Felix Lee <felix.1@canids.net>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Use program_transform_name correctly
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vt2k77ffww0.fsf@zenia.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031007224854.15D3B158F81@kanga.canids.net>
Felix Lee <felix.1@canids.net> writes:
> Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>:
> > ! t='$(program_transform_name)'; echo runtest | sed -e '' $$t; \
>
> it looks to me like this is written for a program_transform_name
> that's a concatenated list of -e options. the -e '' will keep
> sed from complaining if program_transform_name is null.
>
> I remember at some point in the past, sometimes
> program_transform_name was a semicolon-separated list of sed
> commands, sometimes it was a list of sed -e options. Don't know
> if it's consistent now.
All right --- that at least explains what the intent was. However,
GNU sed and the POSIX spec now both agree that, if a -e option is
present, any additional arguments are filenames, not scripts. So this
is definitely broken.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-08 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-07 21:42 Jim Blandy
2003-10-07 21:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-07 22:03 ` Theodore A. Roth
2003-10-07 22:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-07 23:59 ` Felix Lee
2003-10-08 1:05 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-08 19:15 ` Jim Blandy
2003-10-08 19:18 ` Jim Blandy
2003-10-08 19:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-08 19:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-10-08 21:22 ` Felix Lee
2003-10-08 19:32 ` Jim Blandy
2003-10-08 19:52 ` Theodore A. Roth
2003-10-08 21:32 ` Felix Lee
2003-10-09 2:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-08 19:14 ` Jim Blandy
2003-10-07 22:48 ` Felix Lee
2003-10-08 17:44 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
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2003-01-29 22:48 [RFC] Move ``length'' from struct main_type to struct type Kevin Buettner
2003-01-29 23:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
[not found] ` <drow@mvista.com>
2003-01-30 0:57 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-02-07 21:45 ` Kevin Buettner
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