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Re: 2.2.4, gsed != sed


From: Andreas Jaeger
Subject: Re: 2.2.4, gsed != sed
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 12:40:26 +0100
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Toomas Rosin <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> This is maybe slightly off this topic, but there is another problem
> with the check for sed.  I don't know about other non-GNU seds, but in
> FreeBSD, "sed --version" simply hangs waiting for input, horribly

Since FreeBSD is not supported by glibc, I would say let's drop this
issue.  If somebody sends a patch for glibc, fine - but I'm not going
to fix it myself.

Andreas

> confusing the naïve user.  "echo | sed --version" works correctly for
> both BSD and GNU sed, but this does not seem to fit in the
> AC_CHECK_PROG_VER macro, as it now stands.
>
> (Of course, the user could do "echo | configure".  :-)
>
> Peace,
> Toomas.
>

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