> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Hagander [mailto:mha@sollentuna.net]
> Sent: 06 October 2004 15:27
> To: Dave Page; PostgreSQL-patches
> Subject: RE: [PATCHES] Win32 VERSIONINFO fix
>
>
> > Unfortunately some re-jigging of Magnus' Win32 version
> patch broke the
> > build by introducing some un-escaped double quotes into sed
> commands.
> > The attached patch escapes those quotes without removing the
> > re-jigging that was done.
>
> Hmm, this approach seems to make it even less readable :-)
>
> If I understood it right Bruce added the double quotes to the
> Makefiles because he thought having a text string there
> without quotes was bad.
> But having to escape them there is surely worse!
I never said it was pretty, and as you didn't tell me why Bruce added
the quotes when we spoke before... :-)
> The original patch added the quotes in the sed rule. If we
> want to keep the quotes in the Makefile:s, we should proably
> try to fix this problem at the sed rule, not in every
> Makefile. If we can't, then my vote is to go back to the
> orignial patch and remove the quotes from the Makefiles completely.
I can do the latter if that's what ppl want. Like you though I'd need
some sed help to leave the quotes in the Makefiles without escaping
them.
/D