forcemerge 19376 19377 stop On 14/12/14 03:47, KO Myung-Hun wrote: > This fixes the following error. > > ----- > Can't do inplace edit without backup. > ----- > > * Makefile.am (dist-hook): Use -pi.bak instead of -pi. > * bootstrap.conf (bootstrap_epilogue): Likewise. > --- > Makefile.am | 2 +- > bootstrap.conf | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am > index fb4af27..371eb59 100644 > --- a/Makefile.am > +++ b/Makefile.am > @@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ BUILT_SOURCES = .version > # See the rm_subst comment for details. > dist-hook: gen-ChangeLog > $(AM_V_GEN)echo $(VERSION) > $(distdir)/.tarball-version > - $(AM_V_at)perl -pi -e '$(rm_subst)' $(distdir)/Makefile.in > + $(AM_V_at)perl -pi.bak -e '$(rm_subst)' $(distdir)/Makefile.in > > gen_start_date = 2008-02-08 > .PHONY: gen-ChangeLog > diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf > index c0b5f02..0baf455 100644 > --- a/bootstrap.conf > +++ b/bootstrap.conf > @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ bootstrap_epilogue() > # Why? That pipeline searches all files in $(top_srcdir), and if you > # happen to have large files (or apparently large sparse files), the > # first grep may well run out of memory. > - perl -pi -e 's/if LC_ALL=C grep .GNU .PACKAGE.*; then/if true; then/' \ > + perl -pi.bak -e 's/if LC_ALL=C grep .GNU .PACKAGE.*; then/if true; then/' \ > po/Makefile.in.in > > # Install our git hooks, as long as "cp" accepts the --backup option,
This will leave .bak files in place on all platforms which isn't ideal. Pity `perl -i` doesn't handle the platform differences transparently. Does sed -i behave better. That's less portable though could be tried and then fall back to perl -i. thanks, Pádraig.