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Re: [bug-gettext] failure in building po/Makefile due to crippled sed
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [bug-gettext] failure in building po/Makefile due to crippled sed |
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Thu, 07 Mar 2019 20:43:19 +0100 |
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Hi,
Perry Hutchison wrote in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2019-03/msg00013.html>:
> 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'. However, when building
GNU packages, we assume certain programs (see
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Utilities-in-Makefiles>
for the precise list). Since here this build system rely on shell commands
that can read any file anyway, there is *no point* in using a restricted 'sed'
program.
Can you tell us, please, which system this is? I'd like to estimate the
urgency/necessity of providing a workaround.
Bruno