Re: tabs in configure.in?

[Raja R Harinath]

Lars Hecking <address@hidden> writes:
>  The current version of GNU gettext's m4/gettext.4 contains the following
> 
> |  [case " "$CONFIG_FILES" " in *" po/Makefile.in "* | *" po/Makefile.in:"*)
> |     sed -e "/POTFILES =/r po/POTFILES" po/Makefile.in > po/Makefile
> |     ;;
> |   esac])
> 
> 
>  compared to
> 
> [case "$CONFIG_FILES" in *po/Makefile.in*)
> ...
> 
>  in older versions. Why they put in all these additional spaces in the first
>  place is not obvious to me at all, but that's how it is now.

So that the case won't succeed on, say,

  repo/Makefile.indent.in

Anyway, I think m4/gettext.m4 should be fixed to use at least

  case " $CONFIG_FILES " in "*[         ]po/Makefile.in[:       ]*") 
    sed ... ;;
  esac

- Hari
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