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Re: [RFA] more sed fixes for Makefile.in
- From: "Theodore A. Roth" <troth at openavr dot org>
- To: Felix Lee <felix dot 1 at canids dot net>
- Cc: "Theodore A. Roth" <troth at openavr dot org>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:22:41 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [RFA] more sed fixes for Makefile.in
- References: <20031008000714.5CAE1158F81@kanga.canids.net>
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