[uClibc] Re: perl -p -ie changed to sed -ie in buildroot

Peter S. Mazinger ps.m at gmx.net
Fri Nov 14 23:58:34 UTC 2003


On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Friday 14 November 2003 05:50, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > > This change will produce problems on about all distros not using sed-4.x
> > > (there are some out there).
> > > My proposal: introduce a SED variable, run a test against the system's
> > > sed if it supports -i, and if not, try out busybox sed (I do not know
> > > if it supports -i, but if yes, there are some versions that do not, so
> > > check this too), and if none works, use perl -p instead.
> >
> > Another solution would be to build sed-4.x first to provide a usable sed
> > version for buildroot (buildroot provides only sed-3.02)
> >
> > Peter
> 
> Has anybody built buildroot under buildroot yet?
It won't work, sed 3.02 does not support -i, so failure on almost each 
*.mk file. On the other side, it worked, if you added perl to the built 
targets and it depend on the chosen settings, without locale support you 
do have to patch additionally.

Peter 

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