f6a0ad4b (Makefile: generate Perl header from template file, 2018-04-10) moved some code for generating the 'use lib' lines at the top of perl scripts from the $(SCRIPT_PERL_GEN) rule to a separate GIT-PERL-HEADER rule. This rule first populates INSTLIBDIR and then substitutes it into the GIT-PERL-HEADER using sed: INSTLIBDIR=... something ... sed -e 's=@@INSTLIBDIR@@='$$INSTLIBDIR'=g' $< > $@ Because $INSTLIBDIR is not surrounded by double quotes, the shell splits it at each space, causing errors if INSTLIBDIR contains a space: sed: 1: "s=@@INSTLIBDIR@@=/usr/l ...": unescaped newline inside substitute pattern Add back the missing double-quotes to make it work again. Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> --- Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> +++ b/Makefile >> @@ -2108,7 +2108,7 @@ GIT-PERL-HEADER: $(PERL_HEADER_TEMPLATE) GIT-PERL-DEFINES Makefile >> INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA='$(PERLLIB_EXTRA_SQ)' && \ >> INSTLIBDIR="$$INSTLIBDIR$${INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA:+:$$INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA}" && \ >> sed -e 's=@@PATHSEP@@=$(pathsep)=g' \ >> - -e 's=@@INSTLIBDIR@@='$$INSTLIBDIR'=g' \ >> + -e 's=@@INSTLIBDIR@@='"$$INSTLIBDIR"'=g' \ > > Good find. FWIW, I'd find it a lot easier to read if the whole > thing were enclosed inside a single pair of dq. Thanks. I agree, so here's an updated version doing that. Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 2327ccb906..5e25441861 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -2116,7 +2116,7 @@ GIT-PERL-HEADER: $(PERL_HEADER_TEMPLATE) GIT-PERL-DEFINES Makefile INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA='$(PERLLIB_EXTRA_SQ)' && \ INSTLIBDIR="$$INSTLIBDIR$${INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA:+:$$INSTLIBDIR_EXTRA}" && \ sed -e 's=@@PATHSEP@@=$(pathsep)=g' \ - -e 's=@@INSTLIBDIR@@='$$INSTLIBDIR'=g' \ + -e "s=@@INSTLIBDIR@@=$$INSTLIBDIR=g" \ -e 's=@@PERLLIBDIR@@='$(perllibdir_SQ)'=g' \ -e 's=@@PERLLIBDIR_REL@@=$(perllibdir_relative_SQ)=g' \ -e 's=@@GITEXECDIR_REL@@=$(gitexecdir_relative_SQ)=g' \ -- 2.17.0.441.gb46fe60e1d