Eric Blake wrote:
> The task of tracking changes to gnulib-cache.m4 would be a lot easier if
> modules were listed on a separate line, as in the proposed patch; then there
> is
> no longer any line-wrapping of the gl_MODULES portion of the file, and the
> added or deleted modules diff independently of the remaining modules.
Fine with me.
> I did
> this only for gl_MODULES; the comment on a command-line invocation to
> reproduce
> the import needs to remain as a run-on line to be pastable into a shell.
Yes, right.
> OK to commit?
Since you are already pointing out that your sed program is likely unportable,
why not use the classical style with s and t commands instead? It's not much
longer:
/gl_MODULES(/ {
:a
s/)/)/
tb
N
ba
:b
s,^.*gl_MODULES([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_specified_modules="\1",p
}
Bruno
