Re: [swarm-hackers] GNU sed

[Scott Christley]

This code does not work.  This is what I tried to say in my email on  
Saturday.  I took your sed macro from the old aclibtool.m4, installed  
it into configure.in and tried it.  It does *not* fail when GNU sed is  
*not* available.

I just tried the code you checked in as well, it also does not fail  
when GNU sed is not available.  That's the whole point, we want  
configure to fail with a big error message, instead of picking the  
system sed and continuing on.

OR....  does that mean that the sed for OSX 10.6 is newer and capable,  
and thus we don't need GNU sed anymore???  I assume not because Nima  
was able to reproduce Alex's problem and he is running Snow Leopard.

I don't think your macro does anything different than the standard  
AC_PROG_SED.

If you have GNU sed already installed, and you want configure to find  
it, that's easy, just make sure the path is ahead of the system path

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH


On Nov 23, 2009, at 12:42 AM, Bill Northcott wrote:

> I have put up a binary package of GNU sed v4.2 for MacOS X which you  
> can find in the Swarm directory here:
> http://public.me.com/billnorthcott
>
> I have also fixed up the configure machinery in the SVN code so that  
> gives preference to GNU sed.  AC_PROG_SED does not seem to do this.
>
> Cheers
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