Re: [PATCH] Bad sed expression in bootstrap.bat

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
> Cc: gzaffin@gmail.com, bug-make@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 21:02:25 -0500
> 
> On Sun, 2022-12-25 at 19:20 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > So this command will work differently depending on which version of
> > Windows it runs, and therefore I would suggest to replace it with
> > something that doesn't need to double or triple backslashes, in order
> > for it to be more portable.
> 
> I would love to do that but I have no idea how.
> 
> The goal is to add a backslash to the end of every line in the file.  I
> don't see a way to do it, without having a backslash on the command
> line.  I'm certainly not even close to an expert in anything Windows
> however.

How about reading the Sed script from a file, with the -f command-line
argument?  In the file you can have whatever you need, and the
contents will not be subject to command-line expansion that creates
this problem.

> > Btw, what is the purpose of the bootstrap.bat file?  It is not part
> > of the Make source tarball, so who and when uses it?
> 
> bootstrap.bat is the counterpart to the bootstrap shell script, for
> when you are running on Windows.  It allows someone to check out the
> Git repository and build it natively on Windows without needing all the
> autotools, etc.  It needs no POSIX tools other than a version of sed.

So it should basically only work for you and no one else?