Roger Persson wrote:
> Great. But I wonder if there is one malfunction still in the script.
> What if the escape character isn't preceeded by a whitespace?
You're right. I wasn't aware that "make" replaces backslash-newline with
a space (unlike "sh", which replaces it with nothing). I'm applying t
Great. But I wonder if there is one malfunction still in the script.
What if the escape character isn't preceeded by a whitespace? Or am I
wrong? Consider
"\
"
" \
"
This will result in "" and ". But maybe this doesn't matter?
Roger Persson wrote:
> I get a strange sed warning/error of "unterminated substitute pattern"
> while using gnulib-tool. I'm building bison and the bootstrapping
> process uses gnulib-tool. ...
>
> I tracked down the failure to a regular expression in
> "func_get_automake_snippet" in gnulib-tool: