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diff --git a/gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.in b/gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.in
index 0ea92bb148b496596c2d92da010dcec53e80c141..3fb0a0928f26d69e22c40fd5d276643fa3f4ff71 100644 (file)
--- a/gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.in
+++ b/gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.in
@@ -273,6 +273,11 @@ osdep.lo: $(srcdir)/osdep.c
 intl-compat.lo: $(srcdir)/intl-compat.c
        $(LIBTOOL) --mode=compile $(COMPILE) $(srcdir)/intl-compat.c
 
+# The following sed expressions contain a minimal amount of newlines, so that
+# they can be written in a Makefile without requiring a temporary file. It is
+# not POSIX compliant to use semicolons instead of newlines inside a group of
+# sed commands {...}. But this rule is executed only on Woe32 systems, which
+# can assume the presence of GNU sed (and GNU make).
 libintl.res: $(srcdir)/libintl.rc
        sed_extract_major='/^[0-9]/{s/^\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p;q};a\
        0'; \