Re: ABSOLUTE_STDINT_H being expanded as an empty string (Sun cc 5.0, 5.8 on Solaris 7, 8)

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> To meet posix requirements, the sed script needs newlines after `{' and
> instead of all the `;', see autoconf manual.

Thanks for catching and reporting that.  I installed this patch to gnulib:

2007-06-12  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * m4/absolute-header.m4 (gl_ABSOLUTE_HEADER): Fix POSIX sed portability
        glitch reported by Ralf Wildenhues in
        <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-06/msg00114.html>.

--- m4/absolute-header.m4       11 Jul 2006 13:02:25 -0000      1.4
+++ m4/absolute-header.m4       12 Jun 2007 20:10:52 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# absolute-header.m4 serial 6
-dnl Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# absolute-header.m4 serial 7
+dnl Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
 dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
@@ -32,7 +32,12 @@ dnl eval is necessary to expand ac_cpp.
 dnl Ultrix and Pyramid sh refuse to redirect output of eval, so use subshell.
       AS_VAR_SET(gl_absolute_header,
 [`(eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD |
-sed -n 
'\#/]m4_quote(m4_defn([gl_HEADER_NAME]))[#{s#.*"\(.*/]m4_quote(m4_defn([gl_HEADER_NAME]))[\)".*#\1#;s#^/[^/]#//&#;p;q;}'`])
+sed -n '\#/]m4_quote(m4_defn([gl_HEADER_NAME]))[#{
+       s#.*"\(.*/]m4_quote(m4_defn([gl_HEADER_NAME]))[\)".*#\1#
+       s#^/[^/]#//&#
+       p
+       q
+}'`])
     fi
     AS_VAR_POPDEF([ac_header_exists])dnl
     ])dnl