GNU bug report logs - #39999
make install fails on mac (Catilina, Guile-3.0.1)

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Massimiliano Gubinelli <m.gubinelli <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 14:35:01 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: "W. Lincoln Harvey" <lincolnlaw <at> mac.com>
To: 39999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39999: MacOS Catalina with sed
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 11:22:00 -0700

MacOS uses BSD sed.  When the -i option to sed is used, it has a mandatory argument, which should be a zero length string to edit the file in-place.  
Gnu sed’s -i option uses an optional argument, rather than a mandatory argument, which if not present allows the file to be edited in-place.   Adding a zero-length string might cause problems.

Configure needs to add a zero length quote when compiling using BSD sed, and nothing when compiling using Gnu sed, or avoid the whole problem by making a backup using a prefix, in which case both use the same syntax.

wlh
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