Fix admin/quick-install-emacs to work with recent versions of autoconf

Revision: emacs@sv.gnu.org/emacs--devo--0--patch-584

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/admin/ChangeLog b/admin/ChangeLog
index 0f01e1ae1c7..65606c02cb5 100644
--- a/admin/ChangeLog
+++ b/admin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-01-01  Miles Bader  <miles@gnu.org>
+
+        * quick-install-emacs (get_config_var): Deal with weird magic
+        string inserted by recent versions of autoconf.
+
 2006-11-25  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
 
         * admin.el (set-version): Set version number in
diff --git a/admin/quick-install-emacs b/admin/quick-install-emacs
index 9a9d1203d96..2167b8ee2d1 100755
--- a/admin/quick-install-emacs
+++ b/admin/quick-install-emacs
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ fi
 CONFIG_STATUS="$BUILD/config.status"
 get_config_var ()
 {
-  if ! sed -n "s/^s\(.\)@$1@\1\(.*\)\1.*$/\2/p" $CONFIG_STATUS | sed q | grep ''
+  if ! sed -n "s/^s\(.\)@$1@\1\(|#_!!_#|\)*\(.*\)\1.*$/\3/p" $CONFIG_STATUS | sed q | grep ''
   then
     echo 1>&2 "$me: $1: Configuration variable not found in $CONFIG_STATUS"
     exit 4