Re: [PATCH 0/3] gnustep-make: stage 1 of cross-compile awareness

[Wolfgang Lux]

> Am 13.01.2020 um 19:10 schrieb Ladislav Michl <address@hidden>:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 06:31:21PM +0100, Wolfgang Lux wrote:
>> Hmmm, I guess you tried to include
>>  MAKE_VERSION=`(${GNUMAKE} --version | head -1 | sed -e 's/^[^0-9]*//')`
>> just verbatim in configure.ac. That doesn't work because the square brackets 
>> act as quote characters in M4 itself. So you need to properly quote the 
>> regular expression like this:
>>  MAKE_VERSION=`(${GNUMAKE} --version | head -1 | sed -e 's/^[[^0-9]]*//')`
>> You could of course quote the whole code instead:
>>  [MAKE_VERSION=`(${GNUMAKE} --version | head -1 | sed -e 's/^[^0-9]*//')`]
> 
> Nice catch! So you just found why is make detection broken in current
> configure.ac, yet nobody cared :)

I’m a bit confused by that statement. Since I couldn’t remember having seen any 
issues with gnustep-make any time recently, I checked the current version of 
configure.ac and there all regular expression are properly quoted. I’m afraid 
that you’ve introduced this issue yourself with your changes. :-(

Wolfgang