Re: proposed patch for "Tests failed with LINENO." Autoconf bug

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:
> Could you please look over the autoconf.texi change in particular?
> (If we got rid of the Awk+Sed hack, the LINENO documentation could get
> a lot shorter.  :-)   ^^^^^^^

Sorry, I'm flogging a dead horse.

awk is not mentioned in the set of "allowed to use" utilities in
standards.texi (Utilities in Makefiles).  So, if we want a pure sed
hack, we can use the following to generate a sed script which handles
more than one occurance of $LINENO too.

  sed -n '/$LINENO/=' $as_myself | sed 's/^.*$/& s,$LINENO,&,g/' > lineno.sed
  sed -f lineno.sed $as_myself > $as_me.lineno

- Hari
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