failure in building po/Makefile due to crippled sed

2019-03-07 Thread Perry Hutchison
Feel free to direct me elsewhere if this is not the proper list for this report. I have not found any similar reports, either in the autoconf archives or elsewhere, but it's certainly possible that I didn't look in the right place. In attempting to build some of the GNU development tools on a Lin

Re: failure in building po/Makefile due to crippled sed

2019-03-07 Thread Eric Blake
On 3/7/19 4:07 AM, Perry Hutchison wrote: > Feel free to direct me elsewhere if this is not the proper list > for this report. I have not found any similar reports, either > in the autoconf archives or elsewhere, but it's certainly possible > that I didn't look in the right place. As the creation

Re: [bug-gettext] failure in building po/Makefile due to crippled sed

2019-03-07 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, Perry Hutchison wrote in : > this system's native sed has been crippled > to always operate in "sandbox" mode, even without "--sandbox" having > been specified on the command line. There are certainly uses for 'sed --sandbox'

Re: [bug-gettext] failure in building po/Makefile due to crippled sed

2019-03-07 Thread Perry Hutchison
Bruno Haible wrote: > Perry Hutchison wrote in > : > > this system's native sed has been crippled > > to always operate in "sandbox" mode, even without "--sandbox" having > > been specified on the command line. > ... > > Can you te

Re: [bug-gettext] failure in building po/Makefile due to crippled sed

2019-03-07 Thread Warren Young
On Mar 7, 2019, at 5:09 PM, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > * Yes, I am aware of Chromebrew; I am using it as a starting point > but trying to bootstrap as much as possible from source rather than > installing from binary packages (long story). Are you also aware of Crouton? https://github.

Re: [bug-gettext] failure in building po/Makefile due to crippled sed

2019-03-07 Thread Bruno Haible
Perry Hutchison wrote: > > Can you tell us, please, which system this is? I'd like to estimate > > the urgency/necessity of providing a workaround. > > It is a Lenovo N21 Chromebook*, running Chrome OS 71.0.3578.127, in > developer mode**. "sed --version" reports: > > sed (GNU sed) 4.4 > Cop