[redirecting to bug-gnulib, as owner of the file in question] On 04/26/2010 07:16 AM, Steve Goetze wrote: > The following line in m4-1.4.14/build-aux/git-version-gen causes a build > failure on z/OS (EBCDIC codeset): > > # Omit the trailing newline, so that m4_esyscmd can use the result directly. > echo "$v" | tr -d '\012' > > Octal 12 does not represent new line in EBCDIC.
Thanks for the report. I'll push this patch shortly for
git-version-gen, but there are other culprits (MODULES.html.sh,
gnupload, m4/get{delim,line}.m4, m4/javacomp.m4, posix-modules) that are
still ascii-specific.
diff --git i/ChangeLog w/ChangeLog
index 786f89e..6076afd 100644
--- i/ChangeLog
+++ w/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2010-04-26 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
+
+ git-version-gen: allow use on EBCDIC hosts.
+ * build-aux/git-version-gen (dirty): Use literal rather than tying
+ ourselves to ascii.
+ Reported by Steve Goetze.
+
2010-04-23 Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
open_memstream: new module
diff --git i/build-aux/git-version-gen w/build-aux/git-version-gen
index e754c77..be85b6d 100755
--- i/build-aux/git-version-gen
+++ w/build-aux/git-version-gen
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#!/bin/sh
# Print a version string.
-scriptversion=2010-02-24.17; # UTC
+scriptversion=2010-04-26.15; # UTC
# Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
#
@@ -140,7 +140,8 @@ case "$dirty" in
esac
# Omit the trailing newline, so that m4_esyscmd can use the result
directly.
-echo "$v" | tr -d '\012'
+echo "$v" | tr -d '
+'
# Local variables:
# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
--
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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