Subject: Re: bug#31222: automake 1.16.1 am__pep3147_tweak bug

From: Mark Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:29:31 +0000

Thank you for the quick reply.

Yes, using a space in place of "\n" works on my system.

Thanks again.

-Mark

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From: Mathieu Lirzin <[email-masked]>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2018 5:08 PM
To: Mark Thomas
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: bug#31222: automake 1.16.1 am__pep3147_tweak bug

Hello Mark,

Mark Thomas <[email-masked]> writes:

> The change to the "am__pep3147_tweak" variable included in
> <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/?id=006c4dfede96091f5bed622c17946cbec067347f>
> causes the generated Makefile files not to work on systems (such as
> macOS) where "sed" interprets "\n" in the substitution text as the
> letter "n" instead of as a newline.

Interesting. :-)

It seems that using a space instead of a newline work as well.