GNU bug report logs - #26043
26.0.50; non-portable sed usage in nt/Makefile.in

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lee B <lboc.home <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 05:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.93

Fixed in version 26.0.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 26043 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lee B <lboc.home <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#26043: 25.0.93; Build Failure on OSX
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:36:14 -0800

Just in case it's not clear already, the message "sed: -: No such file 
or directory" comes from a portability bug in master's nt/Makefile.in. 
Its line 'sed -f- ${srcdir}/../lib/gnulib.mk > $@-t && \' is not 
portable, as POSIX says that -f's operand must be a file name, not '-'. 
Presumably macOS 'sed' does not support the GNU extension where 'sed 
-f-' reads stdin.
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