Re: Problem with autoconf 2.57?

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden writes:

> there is no mention of using ';' as a separator for sed commands.

Hmm, the formal specification for 'sed' says:

  Command verbs other than {, a, b, c, i, r, t, w, :, and # can be
  followed by a semicolon, optional <blank>s, and another command
  verb.

  -- <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/sed.html>

If your 'sed' doesn't do that, it's not conforming to the standard.
I suppose that Autoconf should try to port around the bug, but it's
probably nontrivial; in the mean time, could you please send a bug
report to the maintainers of QNX 'sed'?  Thanks.  Or perhaps you could
port GNU 'sed' to your host and use that.

I don't like the ' -e ' solution due to quoting problems.  Does it
work to replace the semicolon with a newline instead?