Re: (gnu)sed in texinfo

[Mihai Moldovan]

* On 05.07.2014 01:35 am, Karl Berry wrote:
> If you comment out the call to run_recode(), does it solve your problem?
> (Please don't educate me about how this doesn't deal with the "real"
> issue. :)

I'll check that. There may be more invocations of sed failing, so I can not give
a clear answer without testing. Will reply later.


> It still seems to me that getting a better sed on your system would help
> many more people than just worrying about a Texinfo-specific script.

We do have gnused and likely every machine with MacPorts has that port
installed. However, we do not add the gnubin prefix to $PATH (that is, a prefix
where symlinks with the "g" prefix removed reside in -- like sed ->
${install_prefix}/bin/gsed, df -> ${install_prefix}/bin/gdf etc.) when compiling
software, as the general policy is to use the system provided tools whenever
possible.

This mostly works fine and is sane to keep dependencies low.



Mihai

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