Re: replacement of variable placeholders in files

[Benoit SIGOURE]

On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Benoit SIGOURE wrote:

I think the line should be:

$(SED) -e 's,$${LOCALSTATEDIR},${localstatedir},g' $(top_srcdir)/ conf/project.conf.in >$@

As noted by Bernd Jendrissek, there should be a backslash in there:




Cheers,

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Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory

sed -e 's,\$${LOCALSTATEDIR},${localstatedir},g' $(top_srcdir)/conf/ project.conf.in >$@ So that sed doesn't recognize `$' as `end of line'. I didn't notice this because neither BSD sed nor GNU sed seem to consider `$' as `end of line' if it's not actually at the end of the pattern.

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