Re: [gentoo-dev] sed vs gsed

[Lisa Seelye <lisa@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 00:14 +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> I think the time is mature to ask for another step of Gentoo/ALT 
> improvement ;)
> Currently ebuilds uses a sed syntax that's mostly GNU sed 4 compatible, but 
> incompatible with BSD sed for instance. This is usually fine as we aliases 
> sed to gsed in our bashrc so that the problem in sed calls is removed.
> The main problem happen with sed when called by xargs or by find, as that 
> ignores the aliases set in bashrc.
> What I'd like to ask is, if possible, to start using gsed instead, that's 
> present on both GNU and other userlands with current stable version of sed 
> (4.1.4; ppc-macos has no problem as the 4.0.9 version uses gsed anyway).
> 
> It might require to change the dependency over >=sys-apps/sed-4.1.4, but that 
> would help making portage a bit cleaner IMHO (instead of relying on sed being 
> the executable you need, it make sure you're using a GNU sed version) and 
> solves quite a few headaches for us.
> 
> Comments about this? (Please don't tell me to do a GLEP about this)

Can you change the PATH that Portage uses to do ebuilds to favour,
say, /usr/local/gentoo-bsd/wrappers/bin, first which will have a sed to
gsed wrapper?

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Lisa Seelye
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