Hi Bertrand, This is outside the scope of your patch, but I spotted it in there.
> - sed -e "s|[@]APPRESDIR[@]|$(appresdir)|g" \ ... > +# .7.man files. The brackets around the @ are used to prevent the > +# substitution of the variable by automake. Rather than a one-character character class for each of the variables, which are slow, a better way to stop automake spotting it is to end and start the shell's quoting. sed -e "s|@""APPRESDIR@|$(appresdir)|g" \ I'm guessing `@|$...' isn't an automake expansion anyway, but if it is then the same can happen there. Cheers, Ralph.