From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Sep 6 21:33: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2BBE37B482 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:32:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3990243E42 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:32:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dsyphers@uchicago.edu) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-32-161.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.32.161]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g874Wqh7010587 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 23:32:52 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: sed -i Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 23:32:54 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209062332.54123.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Could somebody explain to me why it was necessary to introduce the use of sed with the -i option into the ports just yet? This option is not supported in FreeBSD 4.6.2. I have noticed print/ghostscript-gnu and graphics/libmng use sed -i, and thus a 4.6.2-RELEASE machine cannot compile, for example, apsfilter or Mozilla. I'm not a committer, but those who are - please wait until a feature is present in a least the latest release before requiring it. I would have thought this was common sense, but apparently the relevent committers all run -stable or -current. (Note: When reporting this in another forum, I was told, "This is likely a pilot error." No, it's not. Cvsup to RELENG_4_6_2_RELEASE and you will get revision 1.13.2.4 of src/usr.bin/sed/compile.c, and the -i option was introduced in revision 1.13.2.6. Hardly a surprise, since 4.6.2 was pulled off the security branch, and -i was introduced after 4.6 rolled.) -David -- When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -Goethe Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message