sed: 4.1.5 breaks libtool generation

[Charles Wilson]

Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
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> After a recent update to my Cygwin installation, suddenly
> configure-generated libtool scripts give me this error when compiling
> and linking C++ code:
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> libtool: ignoring unknown tag CXX
> 
> And even worse, it tries to use gcc to link, which of course fails
> because of undefined symbols provided by libstdc++.
> 
> Using the /usr/bin/libtool instead works, so this would seem to be
> caused during the generation of the package libtool.
> 
> So I guessed that the sed update was the problem, and I was right.
> Downgrading sed to 4.1.4-1 makes everything work again.
> 
> I'm attaching my cygcheck output (before I downgraded sed).
> 

Thanks for the heads up. I'll try to look in to it, but it might be a 
week or two.

--
Chuck

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