Re: gnulib-tool incorrectly handles library names with dashes

[Jim Meyering]

"Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> 2007-07-05  Sergey Poznyakoff  <address@hidden>
>
>         * gnulib-tool (func_dest_tmpfilename)
>       (func_create_testdir): Translate `-' in file names to `_' in
>       variable names.
>       (func_import): Avoid duplication of --avoid statements
>
> Index: gnulib-tool
> ===================================================================
...
> -  avoidlist=`echo $cached_avoidlist $avoidlist`
> +  avoidlist=`echo $cached_avoidlist $avoidlist | tr ' ' '\n' | sort | uniq | 
> tr '\n' ' '`

Hi Sergey,
I noticed a couple nits.

You might prefer to use '\012' in place of '\n'.
Some old, non-GNU versions of tr don't honor '\n'.

Also, you can save a process by using "sort -u" rather than "sort|uniq".
And the convention is to specify the locale: "LC_ALL=C sort".