Subject: Re: bug#10220: Make check errors!

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:07:33 -0800

Thanks for reporting that.  I installed the following
fix into the trunk, and something like it should appear
in the next coreutils version.  If you want to work around
it by hand without installing the autotools, you can
substitute \043 for \# in src/Makefile before typing
'make'.

2011-12-05  Paul Eggert  <[email-masked]>

	maint: don't assume GNU make \# syntax
	Problem reported by Basavaraj B (Bug#10220).
	(fs_normalize_perl_subst): Use \043 rather than \#.
	\043 is portable to all ASCIIish platforms, whereas \# is portable
	only to platforms that are compatible with GNU make (and are
	incompatible with POSIX make).  Porting this to EBCDIC is left as
	an exercise for the reader....

diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index b0b7eb5..f36e138 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -571,11 +571,11 @@ fs_normalize_perl_subst =			\
   -e 's/(\s+0x)(\X{6})\b/$${1}00$$2/;'		\
   -e 's/(\s+0x)(\X{7})\b/$${1}0$$2/;'		\
   -e 's/^\s+//;'				\
-  -e 's/^\#define\s+//;'			\
+  -e 's/^\043define\s+//;'			\
   -e 's/^_(XIAFS)/$$1/;'			\
   -e 's/^USBDEVICE/USBDEVFS/;'			\
   -e 's/NTFS_SB/NTFS/;'				\
-  -e 's/^/\# define S_MAGIC_/;'			\
+  -e 's/^/\043 define S_MAGIC_/;'		\
   -e 's,\s*/\* .*? \*/,,;'
 
 CLEANFILES += fs-magic