sed: 4.1.5 breaks libtool generation

Stepp, Charles Charles.Stepp@T-Mobile.com
Wed Jun 21 19:03:00 GMT 2006


By Gawk! You're right!

Sed "broke" one on my little scripts, but there is an easy work around.
It isn't really sed so much as white space confusion.

-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:47 AM
To: Stepp, Charles
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: sed: 4.1.5 breaks libtool generation

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU> reformatted.

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Stepp, Charles wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor
[mailto:cgf-no-personal-reply-please@XXXXXX.XXX]
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 12:30 AM
> To: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> Subject: Re: sed: 4.1.5 breaks libtool generation
>
> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 02:24:00PM +1000, Mark Hessling wrote:
> > >Given the fact that cygwin runs on a machine where the native
linend
> > >is CRLF, having a major component not recognise CRLF as a linend
when
> > >handling text files is, AFAIAC, a major problem.
> >
> > ...unless you stop to consider that sed is supposed to work
correctly
> > on binary files.
> >
> > cgf
>
> It is?

Yes.
	Igor
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