Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.61a.317-2b1c4] testsuite: 119 failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the report.

* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:22:35PM CET:
> 
> On OpenBSD 4.0, the native sed seems to have problems with unquoted # in
> s/// commands.  I haven't had time to look into this further yet, but
> here's the relevant portion of the failure log.
> 
[...]
> ./torture.at:271: ./config.status "--file=$file:$file.in"
> - --- /dev/null   Thu Dec 13 14:43:41 2007
> +++ /home/ericb/autoconf/tests/testsuite.dir/at-stderr  Thu Dec 13
> 14:43:41 2007
> @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> +sed: 12: "/^[   ]*VPATH[        ]*=/{
> +s/ ...: bad flag in substitute command: '#'
> stdout:
> config.status: creating file with  funny \ ' \' $ & #!*? name

  sed ...
  s&@configure_input@&$configure_input&;t t

does not work if $configure_input contains `&'.  So it needs another
variable $configure_input_sed that has all `&', `\', and newlines
escaped (plus the test should expose that everywhere).

I can fix it this weekend if you don't beat me to it.

Cheers,
Ralf