Re: make bootsrap problems

[Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>]

Glenn Morris wrote:

> I think I see what's going on now. I'm guessing you have /bin/sh
> pointing to zsh. zsh's echo behaves differently from bash's with
> regards to these backslash escapes:
>
> bash> echo "ELCFILES = \\\\\\"   ->    ELCFILES = \\\
> zsh>  echo "ELCFILES = \\\\\\"   ->    ELCFILES = \\

The following ought to work for everyone. Blech.

(Yes, I know I should be using printf rather than echo, but it isn't
used anywhere else in the Emacs Makefiles, so I don't know if I'm
allowed to.)


*** Makefile.in	27 May 2008 02:14:46 -0000	1.123
--- Makefile.in	28 May 2008 00:52:31 -0000
***************
*** 164,170 ****
  ## building Emacs.
  update-elclist:
  	echo "/^ELCFILES/,/^$$/c\\" > temp.sed
! 	echo "ELCFILES = \\\\\\" >> temp.sed
  	exclude=`echo $(COMPILE_FIRST) | sed -e 's, ,\\\\|,g' -e 's,\/,\\\\/,g'`; \
  	ls $(lisp)/*.elc $(lisp)/*/*.elc | sed -e "/$$exclude/d" -e "s|^$(lisp)|	\$$(lisp)|" -e 's/$$/ \\\\\\/' -e '$$ s/ \\\\//' >> temp.sed
  	echo "" >> temp.sed
--- 164,170 ----
  ## building Emacs.
  update-elclist:
  	echo "/^ELCFILES/,/^$$/c\\" > temp.sed
! 	echo "ELCFILES =" | sed -e 's/$$/ \\\\\\/' >> temp.sed
  	exclude=`echo $(COMPILE_FIRST) | sed -e 's, ,\\\\|,g' -e 's,\/,\\\\/,g'`; \
  	ls $(lisp)/*.elc $(lisp)/*/*.elc | sed -e "/$$exclude/d" -e "s|^$(lisp)|	\$$(lisp)|" -e 's/$$/ \\\\\\/' -e '$$ s/ \\\\//' >> temp.sed
  	echo "" >> temp.sed