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From: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: version.c not updated correctly
Message-ID: <2897@dunkshot.mips.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 88 21:16:26 GMT
References: <3710@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: dce@dunkshot.UUCP (David Elliott)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <3710@polya.Stanford.EDU> weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) writes:
>		@version.sh; $(CC) -O -c version.c

This is a pain, but it's worse if you are running SVR3.1 (or have the new
awk as the default awk).  version.sh was seemingly written by a shell
quoting novice, since the part involving awk looks like:

	... awk 'BEGIN { ... } \
	{ ... \
	  ... }' ...

Inside of quotes, it is not necessary to escape newlines for programs
like awk and sed.  An escaped newline becomes a space.  The
result is that awk sees a program that is all on one line, and the
new awk doesn't accept this (the behavior, though incompatible, has
been shown to be correct according to the awk definition, and we
have to be able to handle this).

After fixing the awk script, it's a pain to get version.c rebuilt by
the makefile, and the existing version.c doesn't compile.