Re: Fwd: sed porting trouble

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 10:35:13PM CEST:
> > AM_SUBST_NOTMAKE exists in Automake 1.11.
> 
> Thanks; this is good and would solve half of the problem. But an expansion
> that contains #if and #pragma would also collide with 'make' syntax, as
> explained in
>   <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-10/msg00300.html>.

IOW, config.status should be used instead of sed for all the generated
headers.

I don't really have time to look into this, but if anyone wants to,
it seemed fairly easy to do at the time: the only thing missing is
a cd back to top_builddir and having a relative path to the input and
output files, then you can use ./config.status --file=- < in > out.
Not changing directory is bad because config.status writes in config.log
in the current directory.

Cheers,
Ralf