Re: "\.1" entries in Makefile $MAN variable (Solaris 9)

[Jim Meyering]

"Poor Yorick" <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> Thank you for your reply.  I see what you mean about the extra backslashes.  I
> tried again with snapshot you suggested (coreutils-6.12.29-a16be), and after
> applying the following patch, it worked (with the exception of a failed test,
> which I will report in another email):
>
>     --- configure.ac        2008-06-20 16:19:14 -04:00
>     +++ configure.ac.new    2008-06-20 21:58:10 -04:00
>     @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@
>      v=EXTRA_PROGRAMS
>      for gl_i in `sed -n '/^'$v' =/,/[[^\]]$/p' $mk \
>          | sed 's/^  *//;/^\$.*/d;/^'$v' =/d' \
>     -    | tr -s '\\015\\012\\\\' '  '`; do
>     +    | tr -s '\\015\\012\\\\' '   '`; do
>        gl_ADD_PROG([optional_bin_progs], $gl_i)
>      done
>
>     @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@
>
>      # Change ginstall.1 to "install.h" in $MAN.
>      MAN=`for m in $MAN; do test $m = ginstall.1 && m=install.1; echo $m; 
> done \
>     -  | tr '\015\012' ' '; echo`
>     +  | tr '\015\012' '  '; echo`

Hmm... I now see that the change-set that fixed the last of those
bugs was v6.12-33-g5f47278, which was 4 after the '.29'th used for
the snapshot.

I'll make another.