xml-i18n-tools

Josh Sled jsled@asynchronous.org
Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:54:12 -0700


On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 11:28:12PM -0700, Darin Adler wrote:

| As you can see in the bug report, the autoconf maintainer has already
| weighed in and said, "newlines are not compatible with sed" :-)

Heh...

| Maciej has told me in the past that removing the newline-escape in those
| lines results in an expansion that doesn't actually make working make rules.
| You said that you have verified that the fix works -- maybe we're lucky and
| Maciej was mistaken, or maybe you just didn't test any case where the make
| rule had to work.

Well... I verified that it didn't b0rk when creating the Makefiles... :)
On subsequent _use_ of those makefiles, the error you/Maciej describe
is encountered.

| Maciej also told me that he has an idea in mind for a real fix that will
| avoid this problem and be guaranteed to work properly.

I look forward to it... :)

Thanks for the prompt response...
...jsled