Re: proposed Autoconf patch so that "configure" need not use Awk

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: 02 Nov 2001 17:09:30 +0100
> 
> >> In any case, I'm surprised by s/ $//;s/.*\n//.  I would be less
> >> surprised, I guess, with s/ $//g;s/.*\n//.
> 
> Paul> You don't want the 'g', because that would remove trailing white
> Paul> space from the input script.  
> 
> Yep, now that I understand $ better, it's clear to me the g is not
> necessary.  But I don't understand why you say it would erase all the
> trailing spaces.

Sorry, my mistake; it's merely redundant, not harmful.