[PATCH] Remove redistributed "Blame Lee E. McMahon" shell comment

Harmen Stoppels via Patches for autoconf - the GNU build system <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jan 2025 09:52:09 +0000
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The shell comment `# Blame Lee E. McMahon (1931-1989) for sed's syntax.  :-=
)` is redistributed in all release tarballs of all autotools packages since=
 2001.

I don't know the context, but feels like an odd comment, so just delete it.


---
 lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 b/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
index 5007dda3..d6b2cf28 100644
--- a/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
+++ b/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
@@ -1222,8 +1222,7 @@ dnl trailing '-' during substitution so that $LINENO =
is not a special
 dnl case at line end.  (Raja R Harinath suggested sed '=3D', and Paul
 dnl Eggert wrote the scripts with optimization help from Paolo Bonzini).
 [_AS_LINENO_WORKS || {
-[  # Blame Lee E. McMahon (1931-1989) for sed's syntax.  :-)
-  sed -n '
+[  sed -n '
     p
     /[$]LINENO/=3D
   ' <$as_myself |
--
2.43.0