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sed problem with CVS on Solaris 9/SPARC


From: Albert Chin
Subject: sed problem with CVS on Solaris 9/SPARC
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:47:43 -0600
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.6i

Solaris 9/SPARC sed does not like the '?' in REs. So, how about '*'
instead? I think it's safe considering how we're using it.

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)

-- snip snip
        * src/Makefile.am: ',\?' not portable sed expression on
        Solaris 9/SPARC. Use ',*' instead.

Index: src/Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/coreutils/coreutils/src/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -3 -p -r1.44 Makefile.am
--- src/Makefile.am     22 Sep 2004 20:06:44 -0000      1.44
+++ src/Makefile.am     2 Nov 2004 23:42:14 -0000
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ check-AUTHORS: $(all_programs)
          ./printf "$$i: ";                             \
          ./$$exe --version                             \
            |sed -n '/Written by /s///p'                \
-           |sed 's/,\? and /, /;s/\.$$//';             \
+           |sed 's/,* and /, /;s/\.$$//';              \
        done | $(ASSORT) > $(au_actual)
        sed -n '/:/p' $(top_srcdir)/AUTHORS > $(au_dotdot)
        diff $(au_actual) $(au_dotdot) && rm -f $(au_actual) $(au_dotdot)




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