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.