On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 14:31:33 +0200 "Diego \"Flameeyes\" Pettenò" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thursday 07 April 2005 14:01, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > The OS X sed is broken. Or, at least, it is not a satisfactory | > provider of sed-4, which is what we DEPEND upon. | Well osx's sed is just posix sed, exactly the same of bsd sed. | We depends on gsed for things which, imho, could be done using posix | sed. Mainly the position of -i param, or the douple -e (which could be | merged into a single expression). | Probably both osx sed and bsd sed could be used without a bit of a | trouble for portage purposes, with some tweaks here and there.
OSX sed does not do -i at all. Read up on the original "why OSX cannot PROVIDE sed-4" discussion. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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