Re: cwrapper generates long strings.

[Ingo Krabbe]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 08:32:24AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > +         $SED -n -e '
> > +s/^\(.\{79\}\)\(..*\)/\1\n\2/
> 
> \n is portable only in the regex part, but not in the replacement part.
> For that you need backslash then literal newline.
> 

This answer contains a part of my most burning questions about libtool
development:

        A- what system tools are allowed to assume portability
                (sed,tr,ed, ...)
        B- what shell version to be assumed or which shell features might be
                used.  Especially I think about `info bash
                "basic shell features" "shell expansions" "shell
                parameter expansion"`
        C- what about writing parts as compiled programs? Some parsing
                tasks could be done much faster and solid through real C
                code or what about perl.

bye ingo