Thank you for the quick reply. Yes, using a space in place of "\n" works on my system.
Thanks again. -Mark ________________________________________ From: Mathieu Lirzin <m...@gnu.org> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2018 5:08 PM To: Mark Thomas Cc: 31...@debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#31222: automake 1.16.1 am__pep3147_tweak bug Hello Mark, Mark Thomas <mtho...@cmu.edu> writes: > The change to the "am__pep3147_tweak" variable included in > <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=006c4dfede96091f5bed622c17946cbec067347f> > causes the generated Makefile files not to work on systems (such as > macOS) where "sed" interprets "\n" in the substitution text as the > letter "n" instead of as a newline. Interesting. :-) It seems that using a space instead of a newline work as well.