NLS, attribute errors via cpp during bootstrap

[Robert Lipe]

Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Here's my suggested patch for the NLS bug.  Sorry for the delay, I had

This patch gets me past the first describe bootstrap error.  So this is
progress.

> +	# The quadruple backslash is collapsed to a double backslash
> +	# by the backticks, then collapsed again by the double quotes,
> +	# leaving us with one backslash in the sed expression (right
> +	# before the dot that mustn't act as a wildcard).  The dot to
> +	# be escaped in the second expression is hiding inside CATOBJEXT.

> the NLS autoconf macros are not easy to hack up.

I'll say. :-)

Thanx, Zack!
RJL