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

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Nov 17 02:54:51 UTC 2003


On Sunday 16 November 2003 18:06, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > If busybox sed doesn't support -i, email me and I will fix it.
>
> It does not support -i.
>
> Peter

Okay.

Gimme a bit to repair my laptop.  Buildroot sort of ate bits of it.  (I did a 
make clean as root.  It "cleaned" stuff out of my host system.  Kind of 
annoying, that.)

Rob



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