From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: compiling ncurses (WAS Re: less, misbehaving) 8 Oct 1998 18:04:49 -0700 Message-ID: <19981007211029.26946.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> References: <360FF514.34EEE46D@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Charles Wilson Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com, lhall@rfk.com On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 01:59:00AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: > > Larry Hall said: "Someone recently added an option > for bash of the form "@" where is the name of a file. This > causes problems for a sed script that uses '@' as field separators." Yeah, we're in the midst of fixing the code in Cygwin that handles @file. This one's our fault. :-) > He's right - "@" is the problem, but you can't use "/" as the > separator in the offending sed command, because the search/replace > strings are pathnames and might contain "/". I applied the attached > patch and everything compiled fine. The patch modifies line 5917 > only, and changes some of the @'s in that line to %'s. I've also seen this problem though in sed expressions which don't contain the @ symbol so that's not the only problem I'm seeing. Well, I'll go play with it some more... -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".