Re: [RFA]: Broken sed on solaris

[Nicola Pero]

> sed on solaris is broken or does not seem to work the way other sed's 
> work. For instance in computing the gcc major version in gnustep-make
> 
> `${CC} -dumpversion | sed 
> "s/\(^[[^0-9]]*\)\([[0-9]][[0-9]]*\)\([[^0-9]].*\)/\2/"
> 
> Solaris doesn't like the initial '^' (matches the beginning of the line) 
> and so the output isn't changed at all. Just removing this fixes the 
> problem. I don't really know a lot about this, but it doesn't seem to 
> really be necessary anyway. Am I missing something or can I just remove 
> this?

Thanks - yes (judging by the examples of output of 'gcc -dumpversion'
quoted in the comment) I think you can remove it.