On 2025-06-02 2:41 p.m., Collin Funk wrote:
The OpenBSD 'sed' command does not support '\n' to represent newlines in
sed expressions. This leads to the follow compiler error:
In file included from builtin/help.c:15:
./config-list.h:282:18: error: use of undeclared identifier 'n'
"gitcvs.dbUser",n "gitcvs.dbPass",
^
1 error generated.
gmake: *** [Makefile:2821: builtin/help.o] Error 1
We can use a variable that expands to a newline to do this portably.
This portably issue was introduced in e1b81f54da (completion: take into
account the formatting backticks for options, 2025-03-19)
Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@xxxxxxxxx>
---
generate-configlist.sh | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/generate-configlist.sh b/generate-configlist.sh
index b06da53c89..48ec8d9812 100755
--- a/generate-configlist.sh
+++ b/generate-configlist.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
#!/bin/sh
+nl='
+'
+
SOURCE_DIR="$1"
OUTPUT="$2"
@@ -19,7 +22,7 @@ EOF
s/::$//;
s/`//g;
s/^.*$/ "&",/;
- s/, */",\n "/g;
+ s/, */",''"$nl"'' "/g;
p;};
d' \
"$SOURCE_DIR"/Documentation/*config.adoc \
Thanks. This was the last piece I was just going to look into, but you
have provided a solution.
