Re: problem with multiple -e flags for egrep

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 10, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Nah, you still don't have the m4 spirit.  In fact, RMS did a big
> mistake with elisp, m4 is a fine kitchen sink ;)

:-)

> I just noticed that Automake replaces all the \-continuation lines
> with a single space, so I can to this for half of the problem:

It this were for autoconf, not for its testsuite, I'd says its too
fragile to rely on this implementation detail of automake.  But, being
for the testsuite, we're free to require a certain release of automake
or tell users to not to touch Makefile.in, so it's fine with me.

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