Re: gnulib-tool: unterminated substitute pattern

[Eric Blake]

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According to Perrog on 10/31/2006 1:36 PM:
> Hi!
> 
> I get a strange sed warning/error of "unterminated substitute pattern"
> while using gnulib-tool. I'm building bison and the bootstrapping
> process uses gnulib-tool. I manage to build bison completely, even of
> this warning occur. However, I wanted to check what gnulib-tool claims
> over. This is the gnulib-tool command

...
> I tracked down the failure to a regular expression in
> "func_get_automake_snippet"  in gnulib-tool:906. This is the
> expression.
> 
>      # Synthesize an EXTRA_DIST augmentation.
>      sed_combine_lines='/\\$/{
>      :a
>        N
>        s/\\\
> //
>        s/\\$/\\/
>        ta
>      }'

Which shell are you using?  Bash 3.2.0 had a bug in parsing # inside ``;
it was fixed in bash 3.2.1.

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