Re: Fix STEPMAKE_GET_VERSION for OpenBSD

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2009-12-15, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Op dinsdag 15-12-2009 om 20:01 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Matthias
> Kilian:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:33:14PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> 
> > > It would be nice to know why we need this, esp. as this fix
> > > does not make the logic more readible.
> > 
> > Not necessary, I aready had a closer look. It's failing in grep(1)
> > for \|, which is undefined by POSIX (for basic regular expressions) and
> > obviously support by GNU grep but not by OpenBSDs grep.
> 
> Ah, that makes sense.  Great, thanks!
> 
> > An alternative diff, which just adds some linebreaks and avoids line
> > continuations using backslash-newline: (for improving readability a
> > little bit):
> 
> LGTM, please apply.

Thanks, I pushed the second version.

-Patrick