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Re: MODULES.html.sh broken - unterminated substitute pattern


From: David Evans
Subject: Re: MODULES.html.sh broken - unterminated substitute pattern
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:55:45 +0000
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In article <address@hidden>,
 Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

> David Evans wrote:
> > Thanks for that.  I've solved the problem more simply by installed GNU 
> > sed on both FreeBSD and OS X, and it now works.
> 
> I confirm that with MacOS X /usr/bin/sed, MODULES.html.sh spews error
> messages from 'sed' (with or without Paul's patch), whereas with GNU sed,
> MODULES.html.sh works fine (with or without Paul's patch).
> 
> > I've now bisected this bug
> 
> It is not a bug in gnulib. GNU sed is listed as a dependency of gnulib in the
> DEPENDENCIES file:

Agreed.  Sorry for casting aspersions on gnulib.   I forgot that 
FreeBSD's sed is not based on GNU sed and this threw me.
OSX's  and FreeBSD's sed both share a common ancestry.




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