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

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer