Bug 35259

Summary: automake doesn't handle backsplash right.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: hjl
Component: automakeAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.1CC: petersen
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Fix backsplash
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A upated patch
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Description hjl 2001-04-08 23:45:35 UTC 
automake doesn't handle backsplash right.  In binutils, do

# cd gas
# mv Makefile.in Makefile.in.saved
# automake --cygnus Makefile
# diff -u Makefile.in.saved Makefile.in
Comment 1 hjl 2001-04-08 23:46:18 UTC 
Created attachment 14964 [details]
Fix backsplash
Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2001-07-17 08:07:08 UTC 
Thank you for the report and patch.
The patch seems already to be included in cvs.
Comment 3 hjl 2001-07-17 15:21:53 UTC 
Created attachment 23867 [details]
A upated patch
Comment 4 hjl 2001-07-17 15:22:42 UTC 
Created attachment 23868 [details]
A new patch
Comment 5 hjl 2001-07-17 15:24:12 UTC 
My first patch is wrong. I uploaded the updated one.
I also provided a new patch.
Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2001-08-22 12:45:31 UTC 
How serious a problem is this?  I agree that automake in 1.4-p4 and 1.4-p5
converts backslash+newline to whitespace, giving ugly output, but it doesn't
actually do any harm, or does it?
Comment 7 hjl 2001-08-22 12:54:08 UTC 
It is more than that. The generated Makefile.in
is wrong.
Comment 8 Jens Petersen 2001-08-22 13:07:46 UTC 
Could you give an example of where it doesn't work please?
I rebuild gas ok with Makefile.in generated by automake-1.4-p5+(your subdir patch).
Comment 9 hjl 2001-08-22 15:22:07 UTC 
I don't remember the details.  In any case, I am
using automake to generate Makefile.in and
check it into the binutils CVS. I'd like to use
the one close to other people use.
Comment 10 Jens Petersen 2001-08-24 11:40:39 UTC 
Your second patch is in automake-1.4p5-2.
(For gas the output is almost the same as with 1.4 now.)