Re: sed bug precludes use of a or i in Makefile

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> Gentlemen, it has been pointed out that gnu sed has a bug.

If you look at the context more carefully, the claim actually is that
the real problem must be in 'make', not sed:

> That is interesting. In an HP-UX 11i box I find that it works just
> fine with a single backslash using HP's make, but breaks as you
> describe with Gnu make. (No difference between HP sed and Gnu sed.)

> Looks like a bug in Gnu sed to me.

No, it's a limitation in GNU make: it won't create commands to be sent
to the shell that have a literal linebreak in them.  
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