Stepan Kasal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> semicolons cannot be used inside
> curly braces, so you have to write, for example:
>
> sed '/datarootdir/{
> p
> q
> }'
>
> IIRC, Autoconf was recently fixed to obey this rule,
Yes, here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2006-01/msg00005.html
and CVS Automake was fixed at about the same time:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2006-01/msg00014.html
> sed '/datarootdir/{p
> }'
> is correct according to POSIX, yet I think some implementations are not
> able to parse it.)
Hmm, which would those be? We should probably document the exact
problem in the Autoconf manual. I just checked 7th Edition Unix 'sed'
(dated January 1979) and it worked OK. So these implementations would
either have had a bug introduced, or have been independent of the late
Lee McMahon's original implementation.
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