FYI: functions.m4: restore mistakenly removed spaces in sed LHS

[Jim Meyering]

Hi!

Removing a string of SPC bytes before a TAB is usually just fine.
I suspect that it is always ok when only indentation is affected,
but in character ranges, regular expressions, sed expressions, etc.
it's *not* ok to convert ` \t' to `\t'.  Instead we should convert
` \t' to `\t '. (where \t is the TAB character, of course)

2003-05-22  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

        * lib/autoconf/functions.m4 (AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG): Change [\t][\t]
        in a sed LHS to [\t ][\t ], so each space *follows* a TAB, rather
        than preceding it.  Before, it was [ \t][ \t], but some tool
        appears to have been overaggressive and mistakenly removed
        those significant spaces-*before*-TABs.

Index: lib/autoconf/functions.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autoconf/functions.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.76
diff -u -p -r1.76 functions.m4
--- lib/autoconf/functions.m4   17 May 2003 10:30:08 -0000      1.76
+++ lib/autoconf/functions.m4   22 May 2003 08:21:24 -0000
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ if test $ac_cv_func_getloadavg_setgid = 
   # If we got an error (system does not support symlinks), try without -L.
   test -z "$ac_ls_output" && ac_ls_output=`ls -lg /dev/kmem`
   ac_cv_group_kmem=`echo $ac_ls_output \
-    | sed -ne ['s/[    ][      ]*/ /g;
+    | sed -ne ['s/[     ][      ]*/ /g;
               s/^.[sSrwx-]* *[0-9]* *\([^0-9]*\)  *.*/\1/;
               / /s/.* //;p;']`
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