Makefile.in has a number of escapes (all following @ in the sed expression)
that only serve to stop a sed in the configure script from replacing them.
Escaping ordinary characters is considered undefined behavior by POSIX, and
the patch in bug #229925 aims to serve out errors for escaping of most
ordinary characters to reduce friction when some of these sequences are
given special meaning.
QA:
* portlint: OK (minor warnings that should be addressed separately)
* testport: OK (poudriere: 13.0-CURRENT and 12.0-RELEASE, amd64)
* diffoscope: OK (only minor metadata changes to package)
PR: 240308
Approved by: koobs (ports)
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