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Re: build failure emacs-26 branch on Mingw64
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: build failure emacs-26 branch on Mingw64 |
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Mon, 01 Jan 2018 13:51:08 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
On Jan 01 2018, Stephen Leake <address@hidden> wrote:
> The sed command that gives the error is:
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> -e 's;\(#.*PATH_SITELOADSEARCH\).*$$;\1 "'"$${w32locallisppath//;/\\;}"'";'
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> There is an unquoted ; in the replacement, but quoting that does not fix
> the error.
The regexp separator for the s command should be changed to something
else than `;' to avoid a quoting nightmare.
> I'm guessing the reference to 'w32locallisppath' is supposed to replace
> the Unix path separator : with the Windows path separator ; .
No, it replaces `;' with `\;' so that it can be interpolated into the
replacement part of the s command.
Andreas.
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