[bug-gnu-libiconv] Re: adding version identification to libiconv and libintl

[amores perros]

> Before you send me the pieces, maybe one modification is possible: I would
> guess that the makewinrc.sh does not require special tools, only normal
> text processing tools (cat, sed, etc.)? If this is true, there is an

I misspoke earlier, when I said it didn't use external tools -- it does use 
sed.
I'd forgotten that, and just noticed again.

== BEGIN EXCERPT ==

# Function to apply version to one file
# Argument#1 is filename (eg, "NEWS")
# Arguments#2-? sed patterns, applied one after another
function alterfile {
 [ ! -z "$1" ] || failexit "Missing first argument to alterfile"
 [ ! -z "$2" ] || failexit "Missing second argument to alterfile"
 FILEPATH=$1
 shift
 cp $FILEPATH $FILEPATH.bak || failexit "Error backing up file "$FILEPATH
 # Now apply each remaining argument as sed command
 until [ -z "$1" ]
 do
   # sed doesn't seem to set its return value, so we don't check
   # that it found its match, unfortunately
   sed $FILEPATH -e "$1" > $FILEPATH.tmp
   mv $FILEPATH.tmp $FILEPATH || failexit "mv failed in alterfile: 
$FILEPATH.tm
p"
   shift
 done
}

== END EXCERPT ==

(BTW, that is my comment about not being able to tell if or how many
matches sed found -- I'd prefer to be able to verify that it matched
exactly once, as I expect it to.)

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