Re: [PATCH] Bad sed expression in bootstrap.bat

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2022-12-26 at 05:29 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> How about reading the Sed script from a file, with the -f command-
> line argument?

That would work.  It's annoying to have to add an entirely new file in
source control just to work around this though.

> > bootstrap.bat is the counterpart to the bootstrap shell script, for
> > when you are running on Windows.  It allows someone to check out
> > the Git repository and build it natively on Windows without needing
> > all the autotools, etc.  It needs no POSIX tools other than a
> > version of sed.
> 
> So it should basically only work for you and no one else?

No; actually it's ONLY for other people: I don't use it myself.  When I
do testing on Windows I always build a dist file on my GNU/Linux system
and send it over to Windows and unpack and test it there.

That script is for other people who want to build GNU make checked out
directly from Git on their Windows system and don't want to have to
install, or have access to, a fully decked-out POSIX environment where
they can run all the auto tools like autoconf, automake, gettext, etc.
that are normally needed to build from Git.