# HG changeset patch
# User Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
# Date 1283615250 -7200
# Node ID 38f90e1a26c28c085e6175b0e9dc19afd5430b77
# Parent  016a2b7d7d27c9b43113528e685b9bc5eaeae9c4
gnulib-tool: Fix expression that counts directories.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 	gnulib-tool: Avoid error when run in a package without Makefile.am.
 	* gnulib-tool: When collecting the m4dirs in a package that does not
 	have a Makefile.am, eliminate those directories that contain no
-	gnulib-cache.m4.
+	gnulib-cache.m4. Fix expression that counts these directories.
 
 2010-09-04  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -5519,7 +5519,7 @@
           sedexpr3='s,/[^/]*$,,'
           m4dirs=`sed -n -e "$sedexpr1" aclocal.m4 | sed -e "$sedexpr2" -e "$sedexpr3" | LC_ALL=C sort -u`
           m4dirs=`for arg in $m4dirs; do if test -f "$destdir/$arg"/gnulib-cache.m4; then echo $arg; fi; done`
-          m4dirs_count=`printf %s "$m4dirs" | wc -l`
+          m4dirs_count=`for arg in $m4dirs; do echo "$arg"; done | wc -l`
         fi
       fi
       if test $m4dirs_count = 0; then