escaped sed metacharacters (was: r150960 changed ltmain.sh and broke the build)

2009-09-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
rehashing the discussion here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/108348/focus=108368 * Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:36:07PM CEST: True. I guess I'll find time to visit this patch, if no one beats me to it. Lemme try to beat you to it. It seems that that a sweep over

Re: r150960 changed ltmain.sh and broke the build

2009-08-31 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paolo Bonzini on 8/31/2009 1:04 AM: But maybe '%' has some merit, although it can occur in unquoted filenames. I think we should go with '%' or maybe '!'. % can occur in URLs. I'd rather go with recommending ! (since many shells

Re: r150960 changed ltmain.sh and broke the build

2009-08-31 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:36:07PM CEST: According to Paolo Bonzini on 8/31/2009 1:04 AM: But maybe '%' has some merit, although it can occur in unquoted filenames. I think we should go with '%' or maybe '!'. % can occur in URLs. I'd rather go with recommending

Re: r150960 changed ltmain.sh and broke the build

2009-08-27 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/26/2009 12:22 PM: How about Patterns should not include the separator (unless escaped), even as part of a character class. In conformance with Posix, the Cray `sed' rejects `s/[^/]*$//': use

Re: r150960 changed ltmain.sh and broke the build

2009-08-26 Thread Dave Korn
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [ trimmed Cc:, added autoconf-patches; followups can remove gcc@ ] [ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gcc.devel/108348 ] * Dave Korn wrote on Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:16:11PM CEST: Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Patterns should not include the separator (unless