From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:11:03 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add comment.
X-Git-Tag: v0.17~336
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Add comment.
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diff --git a/gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.in b/gettext-runtime/intl/Makefile.in
index 0ea92bb14..3fb0a0928 100644
--- 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'; \