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#26043
26.0.50; non-portable sed usage in nt/Makefile.in
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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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> Cc: 26043 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Lee B <lboc.home <at> gmail.com>
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:36:14 -0800
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> 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.
Yes, I know. This started happening since generation of nt/gnulib.mk
was made mandatory on all platforms; before that this rule was only
used by a Windows build, which uses GNU Sed.
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