Re: odepkg on Mac (was: Octave 4.2.0 release candidate 1 available for ftp)

[Sebastian]

> Am 10.09.2016 um 00:22 schrieb Mike Miller <address@hidden>:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 20:47:02 +0200, Sebastian wrote:
>>> Am 09.09.2016 um 20:44 schrieb Carlo De Falco <address@hidden>:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 9 Sep 2016, at 20:22, Carlo De Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 9 Sep 2016, at 20:15, Mike Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Is it another case of sed vs ${SED}?
>>>> 
>>>> I already suggested that...
>>>> 
>>>> @Sebastian, you say you checked, didn't you?
>>>> What did you do exactly to check?
>>> 
>>> I tried the following :
>>> 
>>> - change any occurrence of 'sed' to ${SED} in 
>>> build-aux/mk-octave-config-h.sh
>>> - ln -s /usr/local/bin/gsed /usr/local/bin/sed 
>>> - ./configure SED=/usr/local/bin/gsed
>>> 
>>> but still the macros to not appear in octave-config-h
>>> 
>>> c.
>> 
>> I checked on my machine, too. Configure reports "checking for a usable 
>> sed... /usr/local/opt/gnu-sed/bin/gsed". So it should be correct? Any other 
>> idea?
> 
> That is not enough in this case. That confirms that the variable SED is
> set to gsed, but what happens if a script doesn't use it and calls sed
> directly?
> 
> Please try building from scratch with the attached patch.

Yes, the patch works! Indeedm Carlo and you were right. I hope the patch goes 
straight into 4.2rc2 :)

Bye
Sebastian