Re: [swarm-hackers] GNU sed

[Bill Northcott]

On 24/11/2009, at 9:13 AM, Scott Christley wrote:
> Maybe it would be better, instead of trying to work around libtool and 
> AC_PROG_SED, which could easily break in the future.  Just have a completely 
> separate macro that searches for GNU sed, then in the few cases in the source 
> code where we specifically need GNU sed, then we uses a different variable 
> like GSED to access it instead of plain sed.

My thought too, as I was sipping my coffee just now.
> 
> My guess is that the normal sed should work fine for all the autoconf stuff, 
> that is what AC_PROG_SED should be checking.  We just need GNU sed for the 
> template processing?

All that AC_PROG_SED cares about is line length.

I think make-h2x uses GNU specific extensions, and I can't be bothered to 
rewrite it!

Bill