Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Vlad Glagolev (e541968349f5b85e4be5bfc9ba8e65bf4534d827)
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 19:49:24 -0800
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:21:31 +0100
Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:
> Am Fri, 7 Nov 2008 23:53:39 -0500
> schrieb flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>:
>
> > Does this matter for our own spells? We aren't BSD, and *we* have
> > the GNU extensions. If this is a patch to be submitted upstream I
> > understand the logic of your argument, but otherwise I don't see
> > the need for a separate "portable" sedit.
I believe sedit is from before GNU sed had '-i', but we've continued to
use it afterwards. It's nice to have if you're trying to do a
cross-compile into a different directory to bootstrap an SMGL system
from another (e.g. install Debian on SPARC and then use INSTALL_ROOT to
build SMGL somewhere).
> Hm, I remember being told to not use sedit anymore... are we trying
> to bootstrap on plain BSD systems?
I must have missed that memo.
> Also, I remember my old Tru64 workstation where I _tried_ to upgrade
> to GNU sed, but that failed because the installed sed missed features!
sedit would avoid that, at least until the GNU sed was in place. :)