Patch for sed-4.2.2.177-a348 on mingw-w64

[Stephan T. Lavavej]

Hi,

I build sed as part of my mingw-w64 distro. When I saw the
sed-4.2.2.177-a348 snapshot, I eagerly tried it, but it catastrophically
failed to compile (see [1] for the errors). Miodrag Milanovic figured out
that the following one-line patch is necessary:


diff -aurN sed-4.2.2.177-a348/Makefile.in
sed-4.2.2.177-a348-fixed/Makefile.in
--- sed-4.2.2.177-a348/Makefile.in      2016-12-05 15:24:27.000000000 -0800
+++ sed-4.2.2.177-a348-fixed/Makefile.in        2016-12-13
21:04:52.016792000 -0800
@@ -5776,7 +5776,7 @@
        fi
        echo stamp > $(srcdir)/doc/s-texi
 
-doc/sed.1: sed/sed .version $(srcdir)/doc/sed.x
+doc/sed.1: sed/sed$(EXEEXT) .version $(srcdir)/doc/sed.x
        $(AM_V_GEN)$(MKDIR_P) doc
        $(AM_V_at)rm -rf $@ address@hidden
        $(AM_V_at)$(HELP2MAN)                                           \


With this, the snapshot builds flawlessly for mingw-w64 (and runs fine,
according to 5 seconds of cursory testing). (While I understand what the
patch is doing - MinGW has executable extensions while ordinary Unix doesn't
- I have no clue how this ended up completely wrecking the build.)

Could you please incorporate this patch into the upcoming release? Thank you
for your continuing work - I'm looking forward to the new release.

Stephan T. Lavavej

[1] https://github.com/StephanTLavavej/mingw-distro/issues/17