Matthew Burgess wrote: > John Profic wrote: > >> 1) my version of sed do not support -i switch at all (it is 3.0.2) and >> I used method (cp file file-ORIG; sed ... file-ORIG > file) seen in >> cross-lfs (scripts) to workaround this > > > That suggests your host is really old, though I suppose the whole point > of cross-lfs is to expand the number of hosts we can build from. > > Jim/Jeremy, could you audit all occurences of 'sed' prior to chapter > 6.17 (sed-4.1.4 installation) and remove the '-i' flag please? Either > that or we need to have modern 'sed' built really early on.
It seems to me that the last sentence is the way to go. To make changes to the book install instructions to accomodate old base installs does not seem reasonable to me. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
