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automake 1.16.1 am__pep3147_tweak bug

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From: Mark Thomas <mthomas <at> cmu.edu>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "31222 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <31222 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#31222: automake 1.16.1 am__pep3147_tweak bug
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 <mthl <at> gnu.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2018 5:08 PM
To: Mark Thomas
Cc: 31222 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31222: automake 1.16.1 am__pep3147_tweak bug

Hello Mark,

Mark Thomas <mthomas <at> cmu.edu> 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.

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