Roger Persson wrote:
> Great. But I wonder if there is one malfunction still in the script.
> What if the escape character isn't preceeded by a whitespace?
You're right. I wasn't aware that "make" replaces backslash-newline with
a space (unlike "sh", which replaces it with nothing). I'm applying this:
2006-11-02 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* gnulib-tool (func_get_automake_snippet): Interpret a backslash-
newline sequence in the Makefile.am snippet as a space, like "make"
does.
Reported by Roger Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
*** gnulib-tool 1 Nov 2006 13:20:07 -0000 1.185
--- gnulib-tool 2 Nov 2006 13:56:39 -0000
***************
*** 916,922 ****
sed_combine_lines='/\\$/{
:a
N
! s/\\\n//
s/\\$/\\/
ta
}'
--- 916,922 ----
sed_combine_lines='/\\$/{
:a
N
! s/\\\n/ /
s/\\$/\\/
ta
}'
