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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2007-09-15 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * gnulib-tool (sed): Try a little harder to make bash understand the + alias. + Reported by Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>. + 2007-09-13 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> * ChangeLog: Remove conflict markers. diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool index 0810a5953c..f4f6ad3a31 100755 --- a/gnulib-tool +++ b/gnulib-tool @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ progname=$0 package=gnulib -cvsdatestamp='$Date: 2007-09-09 12:17:36 $' +cvsdatestamp='$Date: 2007-09-16 00:41:34 $' last_checkin_date=`echo "$cvsdatestamp" | sed -e 's,^\$[D]ate: ,,'` version=`echo "$last_checkin_date" | sed -e 's/ .*$//' -e 's,/,-,g'` nl=' @@ -73,6 +73,17 @@ fi # gnulib-tool generates, since we don't want "sed --posix" to leak # into makefiles. if (alias) > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo | sed --posix -e d >/dev/null 2>&1; then + # Define sed as an alias. + # It is not always possible to use aliases. Aliases are guaranteed to work + # if the executing shell is bash and either it is invoked as /bin/sh or + # is a version >= 2.0, supporting shopt. This is the common case. + # Two other approaches (use of a variable $sed or of a function func_sed + # instead of an alias) require massive, fragile code changes. + # An other approach (use of function sed) requires `which sed` - but 'which' + # is hard to emulate, due to missing "test -x" on some platforms. + if test -n "$BASH_VERSION"; then + shopt -s expand_aliases >/dev/null 2>&1 + fi alias sed='sed --posix' fi |