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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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Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Artificial Intelligence, i386-suse-linux) |
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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- 2.2.4, gsed != sed, Toomas Rosin, 2001/12/22
- Re: 2.2.4, gsed != sed, Andreas Jaeger, 2001/12/28
- Re: 2.2.4, gsed != sed, Ulrich Drepper, 2001/12/28
- Re: 2.2.4, gsed != sed, Ulrich Drepper, 2001/12/29
- Re: 2.2.4, gsed != sed, Andreas Jaeger, 2001/12/29
- Re: 2.2.4, gsed != sed, Ulrich Drepper, 2001/12/29